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Camp 9 Road, riding the stream, passing through the same rapids that were so canyon, he saw parts of the popular decades ago when the great limestone clifFs, once It was a nice, sunny after- Stanislaus River fiowed freely submerged under the water, noon in October along the through the gorge between bleached so bright they would New Melones Reservoir.

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By JASON COWAN The Union Democrat

Over the rainbow — A rainbow, which accompanied light rainfall between 4 and 5 p.m.

Thursday, arcs across a hill in downtown Sonora.A2

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Christmas treesFree service to dispose of trees available until end of January.A2

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STDS — Health officials say the incidence of syphilis cases hss increased both locally and nationally.A2

By TORI THOMAS The Union Democrat

City CouncilAngels Camp mulls pot cultivation regulations.

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OPlnlOn —Chavez: Violating privacy is bad business. Hightower: Big corporations seek to manipulate tax code.

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News elsewhere — China's market turmoil worrying; Besieged Syrian villages run short of food; Feds: Arrests made in terrorism-related cases; Man killed in fake explosives vest.A5

SPORTS • BEARS VS. 'CATS: Summerville hosts county foe Sonora for MLL basketball opener.

C1 • ACKERMAN: Fishing for trout msy soon get better.C1 • MLB: Giants agree to 3-year, $31 M deal with OF Span.C1

• WINTER WONDERLANDS: With about 2 feet of fresh snow dumped on Bear Valley and Dodge Ridge the past two days, the name of the game wss powder under bluebird skies.C2

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Handguns (above) are tagged for sale Wednesday at B-Bar-Y Traders in Jamestown. Joe Lappin (below) stands outside Hardshell Tactical Finishes in Angels Camp. Both businesses had increased gun sales in December.

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December has always been a strong month for firearms sales at B-Bar-Y Traders in Jamestown.

This recent Christmas season, owner Bill Youngman experienced the usual increase in sales, but he also sold more firearms to firsttime buyers, older customers, and people who hadn't bought a gun in years.

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strictions on gun sales in the afi ermath of the Islamic State-inspired Dec. 2 terrorist attack that resulted in the shooting deaths of 14 people in San Bernardino.

Joe Lappin of Hardshell Tactical Finishes in Angels Camp, experienced a similar increase in sales.

"Some people are a&aid," Youngman said.

'They' re scared the government's not going to protect us &om ISIS." "People are a&aid with what's going on with Obama," Lappin said. "It's an executive order with a swipe of a pen, and I consider that to be tyranny."

Youngman said he averaged 4.9 gun sales a day in October,about 4 in N ovember and then 7.2 in December.

"It just jumped, nearly double, and it's been busy ever since," he said.

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Beware of where you park.

Beginning We d nesday, heightened parking enforcement will begin in downtown Sonora, the Sonora Police Department said Thursday.

The areas of enforcement include timed parking.

Officers write tickets "all the time," Sonora Police Chief Mark Stinson said, adding that his department does not normally enforce timed parking, unless someone complains.

Parking rules are clearly marked and have been for years — but many people have not been following the signs and roadway markings, Stinson said.

To help ramp up parking enforcement, the department hired Joel Battle this past fall as the parking enforcement officer for downtown Sonora.

The new position comes after the Sonora City Council extended parking times in

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By ALEX MacLEAN The Union Democrat

Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed 2016-17 state budget released Thursday would help Calaveras County recover fromlastyear's devastating Butte Fire.

The proposal would set aside $1.9 million in one-time funds for Lake and Calaveras counties to backfill lost tax

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Over the rainbow

Dispose of Christmas trees in East Sonora

A rainbow arcs across a hill Thursday in downtown Sonora. The rainbow accompanied light rainfall between 4 and 5p.m. The National Weather Service forecast calls for more rain tonight and Saturday. Mostly sunny skies are predicted Sunday, but that will likely give way to more rain Monday. Temperatures for the rest of the week are expected to range from daily highs in the low 50s to overnight lows in the m id 30s.

Wednesday night's storm, which caused traffic jams along several Tuolumne County roads, brought 6 inches of snow to Cedar Ridge and 1.07 inches of rain to Sonora.

Free service available until end of month

or dead Christmas trees.

Real trees, not fake ones," Morales said T h ursday.

"They' re taking them the whole month of January free of charge."

By GUY McCARTHY County residents can The Unt'on Democrat bring their Christmas trees to thefacility from 8 a.m.

People who l i v e in to 3:30 p.m. every Tuesday T uolumne County a n d through Saturday until the want to dispose of their end of this month. old Christmas trees — real Waste Management peoones, not fake — have at ple will grind the old trees leastone cost-free option. up to make mulch, Morales Any real Christmas tree, said. live or dead, can be taken The Waste Management to the Waste Management Cal Sierra Earth Resource Cal Sierra Earth Resource facility is at 14909 C facility off Tuolumne Road Ave. near S t andard. For in East Sonora for the rest more information, call 532of this month, Judy Mo- 1413. rales, a Waste Management

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STDs on rise locally, nationally

By LACEY PETERSON The Union Democrat

tional levels, local public health departments have also seen a sharp increase in

Health officials say the incidence of syphilis cases has increased both locally and nationally.

Reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have increased for the first time since 2006,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2014, 1.4 million cases of chlamydia were reported, a rate of 456.1 cases per 100,000 people, which was up 2.8 percent from 2013.

Rates of primary and secondary syphilis (the most infectious stages of syphilis) and gonorrhea have both increased since 2013, by 15.1 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively.

In 2014, nationally there were 350,062 reported cases of gonorrhea (a rate of 110.7 per 100,000) and 19,999 reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis (6.3 per 100,000).

While rates in the Mother Lode are not as high as na-

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A Christmas tree rests atop a burn pile Thursday on the side of a street in Tuolumne township.

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smear and the availability of urine testing.

For chlamydia, Tuolumne County's rate is 189.3 per 100,000 people in 2014. Per 100,000people is the stan-

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The non-itchy body rash that develops during the second stage of syphilis can show up on the palms of your hands and soles of your feet, all over your body, or in just a few places. Syphilis can also affect the eye and can lead to permanent blindness.

People can also be infected with syphilis and have mild symptoms or none at all.

Tuolumne County Public Health offers STD testing for freeor relatively low cost.It alsoprovides treatment and testspartners. It offers free and low-cost contraception.

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syphilis cases.

Dr. L i z a Or t i z , t he Tuolumne County Public Health officer said that's just the number of people diagnosed. More cases are out there.

The Calaveras County Public Health Department issued a notice of the increase in syphilis cases to doctors countywide, so people at risk can betested.

There have been eight confirmed cases of syphilis in Calaveras County in 2015, up from one in 2014.

Before 2014, between zero and threepeople tested positive for syphilis each year in Calaveras, Linda Winn, a registered nurse and manager of the public health de-

ties can compare their levels to state and nationwide rates, Ortiz explained.

For gonorrhea, the 2014 rate in Tuolumne County was 42.7 per 100,000 people.

The Tuolumne County syphilis rate in 2014 was 11.1 per 100,000. No latestage syphilis was found in 2014 in Tuolumne County.

Over the past two years, Tuolumne County's syphilis rate hasslightly increased.

Before 2012, there were between zero and three cases a year.

In 2013, there were five cases and, in 2014, there

partment, said.

were seven cases,Ortiz said.

Public h ealth o f ficials haven't been able to pinpoint a reason — those affect ed don't fall into any one geographic or age group, Winn

On the plus side, there is a risk of reinfection, Winn were no new cases of HIV in said.

2014 in Tuolumne County. Calaveras County Public Those rates have consistent- Health does not offer testing ly gone down, Ortiz said. or treatment.

The good news about Testing is done through a syphilis is that i t can be blood test. treated with penicillin. CaliSymptoms of syphilis inforniawas close to eradicat- clude sores around the geniing it, but then it spiked, Or- tals and mouth and inside tiz said. the genitals and m outh.

It's dangerous because it Sores usually go away, but can cause birth defects, mis- the disease remains until carriageand many problems treated, Winn said. to babiesborn to infected People can also have fluwomen. It can be passed like symptoms that go away. from mother to child at birth.

Symptoms of the late stage According to th e C DC, of syphilis include difficulty syphilis has been called "the coordinating muscle movegreat imitator"because it ments, paralysis, numbness, has so many possible symp- blindness and dementia, the toms, many of which look CDC said. In the late stages, like symptoms of other dis- the diseasedamages inter-

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zipper cut, or other seemingly harmless bump, the CDC said.

notified so they can be tested and treated,otherwise there

"It is a nationwide thing," Winn said. "I think it does point out ... that people need to understand the importance of using condoms."

"Syphilis is a disease that people think has gone away," Winn said.

Tuolumne County is below the stateaverage for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, Ortiz said.

From 2013 to 2014, there was a slight increase forchlamydia and gonorrhea, but Ortiz said it could be from an increase in testing. There is testing done for those STDs eases. nal organs and can result in during a routine female pap The painless syphilis sore death.

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NEWS OF RECORD TUOLUMNE COUNTY The Sonora Police Department reported the following:

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man yelled on Abraham Avenue about a stuck truck.

Obituaries, including photos, are published at a pre-paid fee based onsize.The deadline is 5 p.m. two business days prior to publication. Call 532-7151, fax 532-5139 or send to obitsIuniondemocrat.corn.

Memorial ads are published at a pre-paid fee based on size.

The deadline is noon two business days prior to publication.

Please call 588-4555 for complete information.

Felony bookings

WEDNESDAY None reported.

WEDNESDAY 10:36 a.m., theft — A man Arrests concealed merchandise at a Sanguinetti Road business.

Cited on suspicion of driving 1:52 p.m., theft —A tire was stolen from a vehicle on Fair- under the influence of alcohol or view Lane. drugs: 11:41 p.m., vandalism — A tire was slashed on Fairview WEDNESDAY Lane.

None reported.

The Sheriff's Office reported the following: WEDNESDAY 6:20 a.m., Sonora —A man in a white van opened a mailbox on Colorado River Drive.

9:08 a.m., Jamestown — A 7-foot-tall metal windmill was stolen from a Margaret Drive residence.

12:07 p.m., Sonora — A Wards Ferry Road resident reported forgery.

12:28 p.m., Sonora — A drunk man was on the porch of a Kewin Mill Road residence and refused to leave.

4:09 p.m., Sonora —A package that smelled like marijuana wasfound at a Mono Way business.

4:52 p.m., Sonora —A Beckwith Road woman said someone went into her residence in the middle of the night, stole her things and turned down her television volume.

7:10 p.m., Twain Harte — A Broken Bough Lane woman said her neighbor tried to run her over with a snow plow.

10:26 p.m., Jamestown — A Preston Lane woman wanted her neighbors to turn down the music and stop partying so she could sleep.

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The Sheriff's Office reported the following: WEDNESDAY 12:23 a.m., Angels Camp — People attempted to open a backdoor on South Main Street.

6:16 p.m., Valley Springs — Someone on Silver Rapids Road saw a person on water district property shining a flashlight.

10:04 p.m., CopperopolisGunshotswere heard on Sequoia Circle.

10:18 p.m., CopperopolisA gunshot was heard on Morado Court.

Felony bookings WEDNESDAY None reported.

Arrests Cited on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs: WEDNESDAY None reported.

Chowchilla, West SacramenA memorial service will be to, and Stockton. He was a held at noon Saturday, Janumember of Rotaryfor over ary 9, 2016, at the Church of 50 years and served on the the 49ers in Columbia, CA. board of directors. He was also onthe board of directorsforGoodwillfor32 years.

Mary Elizabeth During his spare time, Arch (Wiebej Farbotnik enjoyedreading and collectJan. 7, 1951 —Dec.28, 2015 ing books.

Arch and his wife, Clarissa, retired in 2000. In 2002, they moved to Sonora. During his life here, Arch was president of the Apple Valley Estates Association, chairman of the Tuolumne County Newcomers Club and chaplain for the Geezers. He was also assistant chaplain for SIRs. He served on the Church of the 49ers History Committee. He

loved living in Sonora.

Arch is survived by his wife of 63 years,Clarissa; his children, Peter (Lynette) of Stockton, Brian of Sonora, Kirk (Cheryl) of Roseville, and Charis Cardeno (Sonny) of Roseville; his grandchildren, Keith Marston, Kathryn Sagastume, Molly Marston, Scott Mar ston, and C arson Cardeno; hi s

Archie "Arch" Eugene Marston was born on February 23, 1930, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Otto and Agnes Marston.

Archie passed away December 12, 2015, at his residence in Sonora. He was 85. Arch graduated with a B.A. degree from California State University, Fresno, in 1952.

In 1955, he received his Master of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo. Arch served in four churches &om 1955 to 2000 — Nebraska,

Mary Elizabeth (Wiebe) Farbotnik was born on Jan. 7, 1951, and passed away on Dec. 28, 2015.

Mary was raised in Vallecito and moved to San Antone Creek, where she passed away in her home the evening of the 27th while sleeping. She loved her family very much, especially her two sons, Dennis Jr. and Stephen; as well as her five grandchildren Brittany, Patrick, Jake, Ashley and Carson Wiebe.

Mary worked for Trannex, Asplundh, Glory Hole Sports, Mark Twain Convalescent and Sierra Ridge, where she affectedthe lives ofm any of-

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g reat-grandchildren, L u k e Marston, Elijah Marston, Silas Marston, and Jesse Marston; and his brother, Ronald Marston.

Arch was preceded in death by his parents, Otto and Agnes Marston; his sister, Shirley Longford; his sister in law, Donna Marston; and his nephew, Bruce Marston.

The family will have a private burial at Dambacher Mountain Memorial.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the history committee of the Church of the 49ers, 11155 Jackson St., Columbia, CA, 95310.

ten with laughter, care, compassion and hope.

Mary's wishes were for no funeral services, but an open house is being organized for a future date. Dennis Jr. can be contacted at 770-2232.

Death notices Death Notices in The Union Democrat are published free of charge.

They includethe name, age and town of residence of the deceased, the date of death; service information; and memorial contribution information. 1 he deadline is noon the day before publication.

BEEBE — A memorial service for Robert 'Bob' Beebe, 80, of Sonora, who died Dec. 12 at his home, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church 13880 Joshua Way, Sonora. Terzich and Wilson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

GLAVES — Lillie Katherine Glaves, 90, of Groveland, died Thursday at Avalon Care Center of Sonora. Terzich and Wilson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

HANES — Charles Hanes, 90, of Sonora, died Wednesday at Sonora Regional Medical Center. Terzich and Wilson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

LAMPERT Eleanor Lampert,99, of Sonora, died Wednesday at Avalon Care Center of Sonora. Terzich and Wilson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

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at the Public Health Dept. • 20111 Cedar Rd.N. Sonora Mary Kelly, Angels Camp city The ordinance is the result clerk, called an ordinance of threebills passed in 2015 written in a way to prohibit by the California Legislature The Angels Camp City the cultivation of medical that regulate medical mariCouncil voted to schedule a marijuana in the city. juana cultivation. Each mu'They are not saying you nicipality has the power to public hearing to discuss the cultivation of marijuana in cannot do it," Kelly said. impose its own regulations on "Nothing was decided except cultivation. If they don't beAngels Camp.

The hearing will be held to review it and let the public foreMarch 1,the state reguJan.19.Members ofthe pub- come forward if they' re inter- lations will go into effect. lic will be able to discuss what ested."

By JASON COWAN The Union Democrat

was re-elec ted mayor for a second year, and Amanda Folendorf was elected vice mayor.

Remember to cover your cough.

Wash your hands before eating 5 after blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing!

For more information call...

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Contact Calaveras County reporter Jason Cowan at j cowan@uniondemocrat.corn or 588-4531.

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more than four decades. Not your typical looking business person, as he was rarely ~ seen without a floppy hat or colorful, tledye bandana on his head, Burleigh moved to Tuolumne County ln the early 1970's and opened Fire on the Mountain Stained Glass • Studio ln Twain Harte. There he designed and built artglass windows for a growing business and housing market. ~ I ~ l Richard started his first Christmas Crafts Festival at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds ln 1975, as an additional means of selling his stained glass and started the Twain Harte

Summer Arts and Crafts Festival the following year. He soon found that lt took a lot of advance planning and work to put the festivals together and that he preferred the high volume of this human contact to the quiet confines of his glass studio. The festivals also

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bad business Hooking up online and improving college exam scores wouldn't seem to have much in common, but apparently the nation's largest online dating service company is betting they do. The Match Group of dating siteswhich includes Match.corn, Tinder, OkCupid, FriendScout24, PlentyOfFish and Chemistry. corn spun offin late 2015 from IAC along with two businesses aimed at i m p r oving grades and test scores for college-bound students, The Princeton Review and Tutor.corn. Obviously, the company hopes that combining the enterprises will enhance what the business world likes to call synergy, in this case access to an expanded -

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greater than the sum of its constituent parts.

Nothing wrong with that — except when the business model may depend on violating the privacy of individuals.

Online dating services accumulate volumes of information on those who sign up to meet prospective partners — info on income, education, likes, interests, personality traits, physical appearance, you name it. Their success depends on mining this data to market people to one another and to attract new customers.

Some services charge hefty monthly fees; others are "free," sort of. The latter make money by selling access to users to advertisers, who can target their ads to meet the demographic characterist ics and habits ofusers.Free sites also usually provide premium access that requires a fee for more personal information or for upping the chances that the customer' s profile will reach potential matches.

Anyone who signs up for such services knows that the information he or she provides will be available to many people — but I'm guessing that most who submit pictures and personal, sometimes intimate, details aren't imagining theirdata becoming a gold mine for advertisers, much less hackers. Last year's much-covered hack into Ashley Madison, which billed itselfas a site for married people to have affairs, shows how vulnerable the online dating sites are to hackers.

The breach included the names, addresses and phone numbers of millions of users and was implicated in a handful of suicides, including one by a Baptist pastor and seminary teacher in New Orleans. In its corporate SEC filings, The Match Group admits: "We are frequently under attack by perpetrators of random or targeted malicious technology-related events.... There can be no assurance that our efforts will prevent significant breaches in our systems or other such events from occurring."

But what about students who sign up for college exam prep courses or tutorial help in passing their chemistry or calculus courses? Do they imagine that enrolling for such services will mean their personal data could provide a gold mine for a company whose major revenue comes from online dating services? Do parents know that when their underage kids enroll for exam prep or tutoring, personal information may be shared with hookup sites that could then target their kids to become customers? I doubtit,and The Match Group makes no guarantee that data sharing among its entities will not include those customers whose sole aim is

to improvetheirgrades and test scores.

The privacy of education data has long been a public concern. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 protects personally identifying information from most public disclosure. The act prohibits the release of information by schools and colleges without the permission of the student. But the law doesn't cover such entities as The Match Group.

Student privacy ought to be protected from unscrupulous business practices. A good start would be requiring a company such as The Match Group to ensure that the private data of its underage customers not be used as a profit

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Big corporations seek to manipulate tax code Carl Icahn, noted corporate predator and takeover specialist who made billions of dollars in corporatedeals,hasrecentl y begun pushing a charitable cause involvinga group ofpeoplewho, through no fault of their own, are beingforced out ofAmerica.

Syrian migrants who've lost everything, you ask? Or maybe Central American children Qeeing the horrors of drug wars?

Nope, none of those foreign sob stories for Icahn. Rather, he weeps for the incomprehensible suffering of a small tribe of Americans, namely: the CEOs of several U.S.-based multinationalcorporations.

You see, Carl i s f r onting for CEOs of a small group of huge multinational conglomerates who are demanding that Congress drastically slash the taxes they owe on foreign sales of their products. This "reform" would let them escape paying most of the $600 billion in taxes that U.S. law assesses on some $2.6 trillion in profits they' ve been hiding in foreign bank accounts and offshore tax havens.

Three-fourths of these hidden profitsbelong to only 50 enor-

mously profitable corporations.

In a recent heart-wrenching op-ed, he wails that poor superrich chieftains of such profiteering giants as Pfizer pharmaceuticals are having to move their corporate domains abroad, having beendriven out ofthe USA by "ouruncompetitive tax code."

These American-raised corporations have been raking in enormous profits on foreign sales, but the CEOs have whined that thoseprofits should be exempt

be taxed — so, don't you see, this "forces" CEOs to desert the U.S., moving their corporate citizenshipto a place that doesn't make them pay for public services.

Putting th e $ 600 b i llion they owe into America's public treasury would fund a lot of education, infrastructure repair, green energy, social services, etc.that our people desperately need. But Icahn & co. claim that forgivingthiscorporatetax debt "would allow companies to reinvest ... in the United States, creating thousands of jobs." Notice that verb, "allow." They could put this tax windfall into jobcreating and U.S. investments

aren't given this tax boondoggle.

After all, he says, CEOs "have a fiduciary duty to enhance value fortheir shareholders."

Haven't we seen this movie before? Ah, yes: It was in the 2008 tragi-comic, multitrilliondollar bailout of Wall Street banks and big corporations.

They said that if Washington rescued them, they would then invest in Main Street and in middle-class jobs. We did; and they didn' t. They lied then, and the Icahn hucksters are lying to

from U.S. taxation, since they' re

— but Icahn does not want Con-

form" America's tax code. Con-

taxed by the countries where theirproducts are sold.

In fact, their"double taxation" claim isa fraud, form ostofthat $2.6 trillion in profits is subject to zero in taxes. These rank corporatetax dodgers are starving America's essential public services of $600 billion they owe us taxpayers, yet Icahn sobs in print that they are the victims.

If these trillions are brought back home, he explains, the+I

gressto require any sort ofpatriotic use of the money.

Stop the cruelty, Carl says.

America must let the CEOs "repatriate" their foreign bounty by essentially forgiving the taxes they owe on it. That way, the corporationsget to keep the money, and America gets to keep the corporations.

Carl even asserts that the corporate elites are "completely justified" in leaving America if they

gress has a moralimperative to serve not the few who are big corporate shareholders but to enhancevalue for allpeoplefor the common good. For information and action, go to www.

Americans ForTaxFairness.org.

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YOUR VIEWS Cosls ofraisingminimumwage To the Editor: Those favoring the minimum wage increase seem to forget that this will also increase the cost of many things they have to pay for like food, clothing, rent, gas, retail goods and more...

For most this will mean no raise and maybe alossofincome.

I thought minimum wage was set up as a starting point or entry level to the job market and that longevity and productivity would get a higher pay level.

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center to boost revenues in its dating services.

It would be good if the company itself would uphold high ethical standards by setting up a firewall between its educational services and its dating services. But if the company won' t do it, lawmakers ought to look into regulating data sharing that might harm vulnerable underage consumers.

To the Editor: The San Bernardino couple's parents were shocked when they learned that their children perpetrated mass murders. The U.S. and California governments responded in a civilized manner and did not demonize the parents nor bulldoze their homes.

and news analyst.She was ahigh-ranking official for both the Reagan and G.H.W. Bush administrations.

State government would have bulldozed the homes where the couple lived, no matter that the parents, brothers and sisters need that home. The Israeli government feels hu-

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the roads of Tuolumne County? They are continually littered with trash on any given day. What's is it going to take to make our county not only beautiful, but clean?

Erin Hall Sonora

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To the Editor: The remarkable turnout of the Columbia community at the Dollar General hearing on Dec. 16 shows our community's integrity and spirit for retaining the special ambience we have in our Gold Rush town.

Now is the time to continue with our momentum and be proactive, creating guidelines for businesses we do want along the Columbia Corridor, which currently has areas of blight, political billboards and is less than inviting. I suggest drawing inspiration from Murphys to create the kind of touristfriendly businesses and architecture that Dennis Schneider would increase revenue in addition to keepAngelsCamp ing the small town quaintness. For example, we have had a brewery supply store. To this we could add mining supplies, wine tasting, sports rental (kayak, snow shoes, etc.)

Let's get creative, continue working toTo the Editor: gether and create the kind of corridor we' d I commend the young gentleman that took like to see in Columbia. his time to pick up the trash le behind by the snow seekers.

Cheryl Divine However have you stopped to look around Columbia

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If a similar event occurred in Israel, the Linda Chavez is an author, columnist

mane because they give several hours notice to the residents to get their belongings and themselvesoutbeforethebulldozerdestroys the home. Thus, creating a continual spiral whereby all the victims' relatives hate Israeli Zionists and honor the code of revenge.

Let's get out of the Middle East and provide no military support for Israel, Egypt or and other Middle East country. Our involvement in the Middle East has caused the tragediesof 9/11, senseless deaths of American youth and trillions in debt for our children. The men who created the U.S. Constitution were right with the principle that religion and government should never be combined!

It is barbaric and inhumane for a government to bulldoze a home because they are mad at some of the residents who perpetrated violence and used to live there.

Go to Youtube, watch videos of the destruction; sometimes homes of teenage "stonethrowers" atsoldiersare destroyed (a fruitless endeavor).

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Stars to co-host Indie Spirit Awards LOS ANGELES — "Saturday Night Live's" Kate McKinnon and "Silicon Valley" star Kumail Nanjiani will cohost the 31st annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Film Independent President Josh Welsh made the announcement Thursday.

McKinnon has been nomi-

nated for multiple Emmys for her work on "Saturday Night Live," where she's best known for such impressions as Hillary Clinton and Justin Bieber. Nanjiani is a comedic writer and actor, known for HBO's "Silicon Valley" and films such as "The Five-Year Engagement."

The awards celebrate the b est i n

police nationwide as thieves systematically swipe the mix-

reason for panic. Worry, yes, but not

to unsuspecting parents.

Baby formula is a major expense for many new parents, with small canisters starting around $20 and special or prescript ion blends costing two or three times that.

It's also widely used. More than a third of infants receive formula in addition to breastmilk in their first six months, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Often, babies who are weaned off' breastmilk will continue to drink formula intotheirtoddleryears.

The high price and broad demand make it an enticing targetfor thieves,who typically sell the stolen formula at flea markets or list it on websites like Craigslist and eBay.

panic.

That was the opinion of some U.S. investmentstrategistsafter another free-fall on China's main stock market reverberated around the globe Thursday and sent the Dow Jones averageto a lossofnearly 400 points.

Stock prices in China fell so fast that for the second time in four days, circuit-breaker mechanisms kicked in and halted trading, this time after just 30 minutes.

China's tumbling stock prices are, in themselves, nothing for investors outside the country to panic over. Because of government regulations, very few foreigners even own stocks on the Chinese markets that seized up.

But the selling was prompted by a surprise currency devaluation by the Chinese government and by worries about a slowdown in the country' s

making. With its tent on the beach in Santa Monica, the event serves as a relaxed, lowkey lead-up to the Academy Awards.

LANSING, N.Y. — SevAwards will be handed out enteen miners spent a frigid in a ceremony broadcast live night in a broken-down elon IFC on Feb. 27. evator in America's deepest salt mine, huddling with heat NATION packs and blankets before being rescued early Thursday, a mishap that highlighted the sometimes-risky work of churning out the road salt WASHINGTON — Seeking that keeps traffic moving on a strong showing in President ice and snow.

Barack Obama's last year in The workers were deoffice, the administration said scending to start their shiks Thursday 11.3 million people around 10 p.m. Wednesday have enrolled for health law when theroughly 5-by-6-foot coverage with three weeks car abruptly stopped about still left in the sign-up season. 90 stories below ground in But a major independent the Cayuga salt mine while survey ou t s i m u ltaneously headingtoa fl oornearly deep showed that progress reduc- enough to fit tw o Empire ing the number of uninsured State Buildings stacked atop Americansstalled last year. one another.

The Gallup-Healthways WellThe miners would spend Being Index found the unin- the next 10 hours stuck in a sured rate among adults es- shak that's also an air intake, sentially unchanged in 2015, with night air less than 20 deraising concerns about the grees rushing in as they tried lasting impact of Obama's sig- to stay warm with heat pads, nature legislation. blankets and containers of cof"Enrollment is g r owing, fee that were lowered down, though less quickly than an- officials said. Ultimately, a ticipated," said Larry Lev- crane was brought in from 30 itt, who follows the health miles away to pull the miners overhaul for the nonpartisan to safet y in acage-likebasket, Kaiser Family Foundation. a few at a time, as those gath'The law is hardly collaps- ered up top cheered. ing,as criticshave suggested, but it continues to be unclear WORLD whether it will ultimately be the successthat advocates had hoped."

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The assailant — who shouted "Allahu akbar!"or "God is greatt "— as he waved the knife at officers, was carrying a document with an emblem of the Islamic State group and "an unequivocal claim of responsibility in Arabic," the prosecutor's office said.

T he e x tremist g r o up claimed responsibility f or the Jan. 7, 2015, attack at Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher grocery store three days later that killed 17 people.

The Islamic State group also claimed the Nov. 13 attacks on Pariscafes,restaurants,a sports stadium and a music hall that killed 130 people.

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economy in the world, those problems could spell trouble around the globe.

"This is not a situation that should result in panic; it should result in caution," said Kristina Hooper, head of investment strategies for the U.S. at Allianz Global Investors.

Even though China's economy is still growing at a rate that would be the envy of advanced economies, it' s only about two-thirds of what it was fiveyears ago and is expected to slow further.

A slowdown in China is seen as a threat by many investors because the country has been the main engine of global economic growth for years, particularly during the depths of the Great Recession.

U.S. and European companies have rushed to sell cars and a multitude of other products to China's fast-growing middle class. China accounted for more than half of Apple's revenue growth in the fiscal year that ended in September. (Apple stock fell more

"Our life was catastrophic in Foua and Kfarya," said Hussein Mahdi Kazem, a 16-year-ol d wounded fi ghter.

He spoke from a bed in Hezbollah's Rasoul al-Azam Hospital south of Beirut, where he was evacuated last month from Kfarya.

But the two Shiite villages are not alone in their suffering. Both sides in Syria's nearly 5-year-old conflict have used siege tactics on towns or villages as a way of getting an area under control.

BEIRUT (AP) — Pro-government fighters recently evacuatedfrom two besieged villages in northern Syria described harsh conditi ons there with scarce food and medicine, saying some residentsare eating grassto survive and undergoing surgery without anesthesia.

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sealed Thursday accuses Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of traveling to Syriatofightalongside terroristorganizations and lying toinvestigators about it.

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It was due to the drought that began in 2011 that left New Melones emptier than Metzger, who was born in 1986, had ever seen before.

As of Wednesday, New Melones, which has a surface area of 12,500 acres and 100 miles of shoreline, was 13 percent full.

At maximum capacity, New Melones has a water volume of 2.4 million acrefeet.The reservoir as of Thursday held just over 320,000acre feet of water within its boundaries. The storage this year is down even from this time last year, when it held 550,000 acre feet.

While criticizing certain aspects of Brown's $122 billion spending plan, Mother Lode lawmakers praised the funding for those impacted by last year's fires that burned a combined 145,000 acres and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Calaveras and Lake counties.

Assemblyman Frank Bigelow, R-O'Neals, issued a statement Thursday saying he was pleased Brown has "recognized the catastrophic loss the Butte Fire caused Calaveras and Amador counties."

"As your representative, I will continue to advocatefortheserelieffunds to be included in the final budget," he said.

State Sen. Tom Berryhill, R-Twain Harte, was also pleased to see money for Butte Fire recovery included in Brown's budget proposal.

"There isa lotmore to be done to protect our forests and the communities near them, but this is a start," he said in a statement released Thursday. "I will continue working to seethat our area getsthe assistance itneeds to recover from the fires as well as prevent future wildfires."

The state has committed about $292 million in the current fiscal year to emergency responseactivities associated with both fires, including wildfire suppression and debris removal costs, according to Brown's budget summary.

Berryhill and Board of Equalization Vice Chairman George Runner also praised the plan for providing an additional $2 billion to

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els have been in New Melones since the drought of the early 1990s. The lake fell to 83,631acre-feet in October 1992. The amount then was lowerthan the storage-level limitations imposed in 1980 by the California State Water Resources Control Board Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat of 438,000 acre-feet. The The upper east reaches of New Melones Reservoir New Melones Dam — which have receded so low the flow looks more like the saw fierce public opposition, Stanislaus River Wednesday as it passes under the including one man chaining normally submerged, old Parrotts Ferry Bridge. himself to a boulder on the surface — was constructed contract elevations, water said. "When it does, it's a in 1979,according to the right obligations, fish needs fiood year."

Bureau of Reclamation. among other needs.

Forecasts indicate that it The storage limitations On Wednesday, the reser- is unlikely that the reservoir lasted until e arly 1 983, voirreleased water atapace will fill this year, despite the when a Rood year saw water of 220cubicfeetper second, weather in the Mother Lode levels within the reservoir which is not considered fast. thus far. Hunt says the River increase to 1.6 million acre- Though many independent Forecast Center, part of the feet. At that point, the con- variables are involved to in- National Oceanic and Attrol board removed all filling fluence the speed, Metzger mospheric A d ministration, restrict ions. said it is water that can be is forecasting slightly below Thus far in th e water kayaked on. average inflow this yearyear, which began on Oct. 1, Hunt said, most times, a little more than 1 million Shane Hunt, a public affairs larger reservoirs like New acre feet. officer for the Bureau of Melones — which is among To fill New Melones, the Reclamation, says that stor- the top five largest in the infiow would have to be age capacity has increased state — release water to doublethe forecasted indications,and the reservoi r 55,000acre-feet.In all,the generate hydropower.

"People are releasing wa- would have to retain all of it, reservoir has risen 15 feet.

S ince the start of t h e ter from the dam during the with no release.

The rise in water capacity year, the reservoir has seen day for three or four hours infiows of a pproximately at the m ost," H un t s a i d. and elevation is not some125,000 acre feet — about "Like turning on a faucet." thing restricted only to the 80 percent of th e aver- Hunt said New Melones wet weather months, howage through the first three is unique. The reservoir is ever. Metzger says the New months of the new yearone of the few that can hold Melones Reservoir could conbut has released water daily. every drop of water without tinuetoseea steadyincrease There is always a release, releasing any. But it also into the spring months.

"That's when the snow at Hunt said. Water is released does not fill t o m a ximum from everyreservoirtom eet capacityas often as others the higher elevations melt stipulations, such as state might. and travel down the waterand federal o bligations, "But it does fill," Hunt shed," Metzger said.

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Gun laws Gun laws in the Mother Lode are dictated primarily by the state of California as well as federal statutes and regulations.

Lt. George H. Ruckman, of the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office, says California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.

California is one of eight states, along with the District of Columbia, that requireuniversal background checksforfirearm sales,according to the state attorney general's Bureau of Firearms.

California is also one of four states

with mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases. In California, buyers must wait 10 days, the longest period after Hawaii, which requires 14 days.

The stateis one offour that prohibits selling guns to people convicted of assaultorbattery.

Only licensed firearms dealers who possess a valid certificate of eligibility are authorized to do retail sales of firearms, including gun shows.

Tuolumne County ordinances focus on public safety, not acquisition of guns, Ruckman said, such as restrictions on shooting near homes and acrosswater, reckless shooting and identifying areas where loaded firearmsareprohibited.

Domenic Torchia, of Columbia, a former union officer and social activist, said he favors restricting access

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to guns in many cases.

"People have the right to own cerPresident Barack Obama wept openly as he announced new ex~- tain types of guns, but these rights tiveorder gun controlmeasures dur- can be restricted by individual states ing a White House event televised and the federalgovernment, by nationally Tuesday. Gun dealers groups such as felons and the menhere in the Mother Lode and others tally ill," Torchia said. "Gun rights who are part of the gun community stop at a certain point. You have no saidthey were notimpressed. rightto own any kind of gun you "California laws already cover want to.

"Where I'm coming from, is we' re what the president says he wants to do," Youngman said. "At gun shows in no different here from anywhere California we do the majority of the else," Torchia said. 'When you call paperwork. We take care of it, unlike the police you have to wait for the in Nevada. You can buy a gun with- police to get there.You are entitled out a background check in Nevada. to defendyour home, but you don't Not here. We already take care of have the right to carry a gun in pubthat." lic unless the state allows it."

Some fear an eventualgovernTorchia said he believes there is a ment effort to confiscate legally fine line between gun ownership to owned guns, Youngman said. protect property and gun ownership "I think it will be hard for him to for anarchy.

"How do you know a Bundy won' t stop the sale of guns," Youngman said."A lot of people worry they're come trytotake your property over?" going to try to take our guns. I don' t Torchia said. 'Why do you need all think that's going to happen. I don' t these guns? You need one or two to think law enforcement or our mili- protect your home. We don't have tary will do it."

ISIS aroundhere.How many MusTaking guns out of people's hands lims are in Tuolumne County? I'm makes life more dangerous, not safer, more concerned about radicalized, Lappin said. domestic terrorists than any inter"In San Bernardino, if there were national plot." armed citizens in there, the terrorTorchia said he believes gun ownists might not have been able to kill ership beyond a handgun and a so many," Lappin said. "At schools, hunting gun violates his right to do-

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"Maintaining a solid and safe transportation infrastructure should be more of a priority."

Meanwhile, Bigelow said one of the best ways to invest in California's future is by building more water storage with the $2.7 billion water bond that was approved by voters in 2014. An additional $323 million was included in Brown's 2016-17 budget proposal for immediate response to the drought.

"We should make building these projects a budget priority, so that we have a stable water supply for the future," Bigelow said.

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than 45and a lot ofwomen buying Lappin said he doubled the number of sales in November and December compared to the same months in 2014.

"I was probably doing 5 to 6 gun salesa dayin December,"he said.

Like Youngman, Lappin sells handguns, shotguns and rifies, including every brand of AR-15, a lightweight, rapid-firing semiautomatic rifle similar to assault weapons used by many special weapons and tactics law enforcement and military personnel. It's also similar to the weapons used by the two San Bernardino shooters.

In California, AR-15 models are restricted to 10-round maximum magazines and they must have a button device to detach the magazine. The requirements are intended to limit the weapon's ability to fire multiple rounds and to slow reloading.

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the state's rainy-day fund, which is intended as an insurance policy against deep budget cuts in the next economic downturn.

"I'm pleased that the governor continues to take a cautious approach to the budget," Runner said. 'While California's economy improves, it makes sense to strengthen our rainy-day fund."

The proposed budget also aims to boost school spending, maintain 2011-12 college tuition rates and improve transportation infrastructure through a $65 annual fee on all vehicles and additional gas and diesel taxes.

An additional $215 million will be set aside for higher than anticipated emergency wildfire suppression costs as a result of the drought, including the significant tree die-off throughout the state that Brown has called the worst such epidemic in modern history.

Berryhill, Runner and Bigelow were all criticalofincreasing taxes to fi x the state's crumbling roads, highways and bridges.

"We had a $10 billion dollar budget surpluslastyear,revenues are predicted to be even higher this year, and yet he continues

The Sandy Hook, Connecticut, shootings in December 2012 resulted in the deaths of 27 people, including 20 elementary school children ages 6 and 7 years old.

The shootings were followed by more call sforstrictergun laws and the sharpest one-month increase in gun sales nationwide since 9/11.

Data collectedby the Federal Bureau of Investigations for its National Instant Criminal Background Check System shows gun sales nationwide in D ecember 2015, more than 1.6 million, rivaledthe month afterSandy Hook.

Other high-profile multiple victim shootings in the U.S. in 2015 included: • The shooting deaths of three people at aPlanned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 29 • The shooting deaths of eight students and an assistant professor at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on Oct. 1 • Five military personnel killed in shootings at a recruiting office and a Navy Reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 16 • The shooting deaths of nine during aprayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on June 18

allowed by the timed zone. If a car still has a chalk mark on its tire, an overtime parking ticket is issued.

Once Battle completes his training, he will patrol on a more regular basis, Stinson said. Patrol hours and days will vary, but will be limited to less than 30 hours a week.

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C offin said he's lived in t h e Jamestown area for more than 50 years and he's worked 35 years as a peace officer in corrections.

"Gun c ontrol wil l n o t s t o p crimes," Coffin said. "I can tell you gangsters do notregister weapons. I' ve talked to thousands of inmates over the years. They steal

their weapons or get them off the black market from people who stole them."

Farmer said c oncealed-carry laws for legal gun owners can prevent crimes.

"San Bernardino, what would have happened iftwo people in there had concealed-carry guns?"

Farmer said. "Having the guns is a hellof a lot better than crawling into the corner and screaming

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Gun show this weekend

Gun ownership, gun rights and shooting guns have been part of the fabric of life in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties since they both formed in 1850 when California became a state.

Guns remain essential for many people here in the Mother Lode.

Tuolumne Countywas among the top dozen California counties for handgun sales per 100,000 people in 2014,according to the state DeRight-to-carry partment of Justice.

The Mother Lode Gun Club on In 2015, Calaveras County had Jamestown Road was established more than 1,400 approved handin 1939. It is a private member- gun purchases, and more than ship, non-profit organization with 1,200 approved purchases of long outdoor and indoor ranges, and it guns, including rifles and shotguns, hosts events and activities, includ- state justice statistics show. ing trap shoots, high-power rifie In Tuolumne County in 2015, matches and cowboy shoots that there were more than 1,200 handare opento thepublic. gun purchases approved, and more Leaders of the club said the group than 1,135 approved purchases is apoli tical,but does advocate for of long guns, including rifies and gun rights. It lists on its website a shotguns, according to the same quote from Dr. Timothy Wheeler, state Department of Justice datadirectorof Doctors for Responsible base.

Gun Ownership that says, "CaliThis weekend, there's a gun show fornia should learn from the states scheduled at Frogtown, also known which have pioneered right-to-car- as Calaveras County Fairgrounds. ry laws, and should pass its own Hours are9 a.m. to5 p.m .Saturday mestic tranquility. law soon. Let us govern not with and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admis"Somebodycould bring out a gun the turmoil of emotion, but with sion is $10 per person and children that shoots a hundred rounds a min- the wisdom of experience."

12 and under are free. The event is Dick Coffin and Ken Farmer, being put together by Buck Stop ute and I'd be gone," Torchia said.

"Guns are a threat to people. And leaders of the Mother Lode Gun Gun Shows, the same organizer gun control goes back in history as Club, said they cannot speak on be- for the Sonora Gun Show, which is far as the Wild West and Dodge City, half of the club because it's apoliti- scheduled Feb. 20 and 21 at Mother remember that." cal. They agreed to be interviewed Lode Fairgrounds.

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Breakfast will be served from 8 to 9:50 a.m. and will include pancakes, bacon, orangejuice and coff ee.

Cost is $6 per person.

Proceeds will benefit scholarships and local charities.

Tickets are available at the Elks office 100 Elk Drive, from Elks officers, and can be purchased at the door.

Call 533-1587 for more information.

Newcomers to meet The Tuolumne County Newcomers Club meets for dinner on the third Wednesday of the month, January through May and in October and November.

Reservations are required by the Friday before the dinner.

Call Bill Burnes at 533-4334 or Dana Youngborg at 588-9632 for more information.

Appetizer party off!ared as prize The Sonora Chapter of Omega Nu will hold a prize drawing Feb. 13 for an appetizer party to benefit women and children in Tuolumne County.

The winner of the drawing will be entitled to a catered appetizer party for up to 30 guests. Hot and cold appetizers, desserts and beverages will be served by members of Omega Nu. Tickets cost $20 each or six for $100 and will be available in front of Soma Fitness Studios, Joan's Boutique and Sharon Malone Lingerie during Second Saturday Art Night on Saturdays Jan. 9 and Feb. 13 in downtown Sonora.

Tickets can also be purchased by calling 743-1 096.

The date of the appetizer party can be chosen by the winner between March and June.

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Totaling more than 2,000 pages, the bill includes several key provisions for the Department of Veterans Affairs, including: • $50 billion for VA medical services (a nearly 10 percent increase over the previous year), including $1.5 billion for Hepatitis C treatment, $7.5 billion for mental health care, $605 million for caregiver programs and $6.7 billion for homeless veteran programs.

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Julianne Youngblood, of San Andreas (left), and Rachel Geiszler, of Valley Springs (holding her dog, Sophia), a ready to participate in the Color Run at Calaveras High School.

Event to raise funds for popular Calaveras High School coach Desirae Matison, if I could invite more people she said, The more the merrier!' " Appling said.

Nearly600 people are expectedto It started o8'including about 20 gatherJan. 16 foran unoffi cialColor people or so, but when Appling creRun organized by Calaveras High ated a Facebook page called "San School alumna Heather Appling and Andreas Color Run," more than 100 a group of close friends. people joined in only 12 hours.

The event will benefit Calaveras The Facebook page now has more High School physical education than 2,300 people invited, 560 of whom have responded to the event teacher Kraig Clifton, who was as "interested," and 390 who say they recently diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. will attend.

While the event isn't actually a Appling, 31, of Redwood City, certified Color Run, participants graduated in 2002 and has made sure to continue helping her commu- were encouraged to purchase a $15 nity in times of need, despite moving kit from thecolorrun.corn called the "Miles for Meals Kit." For every kit away 13 years ago.

In November, Applingcreated a purchased, three meals are donated Facebook group called Fit Crew" for to people in need. friends and women in the area to inPeople were asked to purchase spire one another with fitness goals. the kits before Jan. 1 to ensure their One of Appling's friend's noticed arrival beforetheevent,butanyone that kits for Color Run events could interested in participating can still be purchased online at thecolorrun. attend and run. corn, and the idea to start one locally Julianne Youngblood, a teacher for began.

Calaveras Unified School District, ''When I asked my friend, another has also helped organize the event, fellow Calaveras High School alumni, Appling said.

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Shortly after the page was created, Appling met with Calaveras High School Principal Michael Merrill at a Christmas concert held at the school, where the two talked about the differentfundraisers being planned for Clifb)n.

The two decided together it would be a great way to honor him by making the run a benefit for him, to be held at the high school.

During her time at Calaveras High School, Appling had Clifton as a PE teacherin one ofher classes.

"CliRon was young and really energetic. He was always a popular teacher, which is true to this day.

Kids are really fond of him. He has a greatpersonality and isabletospeak to teenagers in a way that they feel respected," she said.

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The 43rd annual 4-H Community Dinner and Decorated Cake Auction will be held Jan. 16 at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds. The event will include a tri-tip dinnerwhich includes baked potato, salad, dinner roll, ice cream and a cookie — and auction, which features cakes decorated by 4-H members. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $8 for those 65 and older or 12 and younger andcan be purchased from any 4-H member or at the door. For more information, call 533-6990.

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reminder that we come from a really positive place," she said.

There is no charge to attend the event, but the kit, which includes a T-shirt, headband,medal,setof temporarytattoos and two color packets, costs $15.

Participants are being asked to match their $15 purchase with a $15 donation to the Clifton family.

Food and drinks will be availablefor purchase from vendors set up on the track from Common Grounds out of Valley Springs and Country Bagel out of San Andreas.

The two vendors will both offer food and drinks for purchase and will donate at least 20 percent of their profits to the Clifton family.

"If there is anyone out there who can't afford the kit or a donation, the run is still free," Appling said, in acknowledgment of all those who have recently lost their homes in the Butte Fire.

The event has about 10 sponsorsfrom localbusinesses, all of whom have donated $50 to $200 to the production of the run.

About 450 people are signed up to run, and about 600 are expected to show up, among other spectatorsand volunteers.

The first 250 people to check in on the day of the run will receive a "Clifton Strong" backpack to hold all of their colors during the run.

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Mother Lode Christian School will hold its annual Winter Jubilee Feb. 26 and 27 at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds in Sonora. The event, which includes an auction,games and food and books for sale, last year raised more than $80,000.

The money is used to supplement the Tuolumne private school's operating budget. Donations and volunteers are being sought for this year's event. For more information, call the school at 928-4126. Nancy Rotelli, of Sonora (right), browsed through items at a previous event, while Ernie Eg ger, of Soulsbyville (above, left), and Noe Reid, 8, of Sacramento, took time to decide which piece of pie to buy from Annie Stayer, of Jamestown.

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Loving the pace and flow of a mountain community, she feels blessed to earn a living on the back roads of the Mother Lode, behind the wheel of her truck. She still stops to take in the view and finds herself in the company of some of the most interesting characters with a colorful story to tell. The underdog has always been her favorite of heroes, and at the wee hours of the morning on the icy streets of Tuolumne County, an underdog is not hard to find.

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Grade seven 4.0 — Daniela Arenas, Desiree Black, Jaden Brocchini, Brody Flannery, Samantha Kroeker, Mikaila Kronholm, Makila Leveroos, Amarys Machado, Isabella Trambley 3.5 to 3.99 — Ryan Andrews, Jack Christensen, Savanah Egger, April Gomez, Audrie Hancock,Jessica Hansen,lan Henley, Riley Jackson, Delia Rico, Zane Roberts, Jaden Rodgers, Rustin Tome 3.0 to 3.49 — Gavin Andrews, Trevor Bailey, Mayleen Bullock, Molly Burgess, Mason Campbell-Scott, Garrett Castongia, Nathon Church, Anthony Draper, Jason Draper, Gage Galvez, Giovany Garcia, Ben Gebauer, Nathaniel Lafayette, Isabell Lirette, Jordan Maddox, Cole Moss, Isabella Renteria, Kaeden Rock-Pahukoa, Gabriel Shaw, Elizabeth Tucker

Grade eight 4.0 — David Cazares, Mia Cheveres, Kaci Elkins, Jackson Flannery, Sage Hamblin, Araya Hopp, Jordyn Marquez, Serafina Peterson, Greta Thompson.

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A T-shirt and medal are among items included in the Color Run kit.

Check-in starts at 7:15 a.m., and the run will start at 8 a.m. on the field at Calaveras High School.

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The Little House 11699 Merrell Rd, Groveland 962-7303for reservations

Tuolumne Memorial Hall 18375 Fir Avenue Tuolumne City

Calaveras Senior Center 956 Mountian Ranch Road San Andreas 754-3967

533-2622 forreservations

Lunches for Seniors Tuolumne County Senior Centerserves lunches from 12:00 to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Seniors of all ages are welcome. For seniors 60 and over, the suggested donation is $4.50. To receive the discount price, registration is required. For nonregistered and individuals under 60, the fee is $6.00 per person. No eligible senior is denied a meal for inability to donate.

Tuolumne County SeniorCenter: MONDAY, JANUARY 11 Lasagna, wheat bread with margarine, broccoli, carrots, and fresh apple.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 2 Hap py B i r t h day Tuolumne! P epper steak, wheat b read w i t h margarine, brown rice, green salad with carrots and cabbage,peas, and tropical fruit.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Happy Birthday Jamestown! Turkey pot pie with potato R carrots, wheat bread with margarine, spinach salad with tomato, capri blend veggies, peaches.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 Ha ppy B ir thday Grovetandi Pulled pork sandwich, sweet potato fries, coleslaw, and tropical fruit.

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Chicken marsala with mushroom, egg noodles, romaine salad with cabbage, cauliflower, apricots and brownie.

Calaveras County Senior Center: MONDAY, JANUARY 11 Roast chicken, sides, soup and salad.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 French dip, sides, soup and salad.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Enchiladas, sides, soup and salad.

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Dick Williams will pres- Tuolumne counties. New ent his music and minis- members and guests are try Jan. 24 at Creekside welcome.

Church in East Sonora.

Williams is a composSt. Matthew Lutherer, recording artistand an C h urch W o men' s Bible teacher who shares Missionary League will God's word in everyday collectsoups for Interfaith life through his music and Community Social Servicteaching,stated a press es in January. release. He has served Anyone wishing to doin public ministry for 24 n ated can do so at t h e years and has taught in church from 9 a.m. to 4 seven countries including p.m. Mondays t h rough Yugoslavia and Hungary.

Fridays and 8 a.m. to noon The event wil l b egin Sundays. at 6 p.m. at the church, For more information, 13650 Bergel Road. Re- call the church at 532freshments will be served 4639. afterthe service The church is at 13880 For more information, Joshua Way in East Sogo online t o w ww.new- nora. c reeksidecommuni t y church.corn.

Religious education classes continue on

A Taize service will be held at the Union Congregational Church i n Angels Camp on Jan. 27.

The service, which will begin at 6 p.m., is a time of music, prayer and meditation. Gail Williams will play the organ and Alice W illiams will p l a y t h e cello.

All are welcome.

The church is at 1141 S. Main St. in Angels Camp.

Wednesdays at St. Pa trick's Catholic Church in Sonora.

Classes for s t u dents in kindergarten through sixth grade meet in the Parish Hall from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Confirmation candidates (seventh grade through high school) meet in the Steinmetz house from 6:30 to 7:45.

For more information, call Kathy Casas at 7705987 or 5 32-7139, ext.

T he M o t he r Lo d e 110, or e m ai l k a t h y@ Jewish Com m u nity stpatssonora.org. will celebrate Tu B'Shvat Meditation and Mod(Jewish Arbor Day) on Jan. 31. ern Buddhism in Sonora T u B 'Shvat i s al s o is offered from 3 to 4 p.m. known as the "New Year each Sunday at the Arofor Trees." nos Clubhouse, 37 E. ElT he community w i l l kin St., in Sonora. participatein a Seder serThe meetings provide vice conducted by Rabbi group study, meditations Andra Greenwald, share and discussion. Hosts will a potluck meal and plant play recorded teachings by trees.

American Buddhist nun This will be an informal, Kelsang Chogyop. festive gathering, taking A $5 to $10 donation is place at a member's home requested. in the Bar XX area (just For more information, west of Angels Camp). The call 588-8109.

Seder is scheduled for 11 New Lif e R e covery a.m., followed by lunch at noon and tree planting at Group will host a "Christ 1 p.m.

Centered L i f e G r o u p" For more information or from 6 to8 p.m Tuesdays to register, call 533-1650, at H a rvest F e llowship email m o t herlodejc@ya- R.I.O.T. Center at 13849 hoo.corn or go online to Mono Way, across from motherlodejewishcommu- Burger King in Sonora. nity.org.

It is themed "OvercomThe MLJC's mission is ing Emotions That Deto provide opportunities stroy," and will be led by and events that nurture Kurt and Margie Wiley. a vibrant and enduring The group will teach peoJewish identity, culture ple the difference between a nd community i n t h e good and bad anger, how Mother Lode, drawing its to gain control of it, and members from Amador, how to use it in construcCalaveras, Mariposa and tive ways.

Pope: 'Restless hearts' are seeking certainty VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says restless hearts these days are seeking sure answers to life's questions but don' t find them.

Francis h a s vo i c ed t his r e flection d u r i ng Mass in St. Peter's Basilica Wednesday to mark Epiphany, which recalls the Gospel account of the Three Kings, or M a gi, who follow a star to find the infant Jesus in Bethlehem.

T he pontiff says t h e Catholic church is tasked with seeing and showing ever more clearly the desire for God which is present in the heart of every man and woman."

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Recalling the long journey of the Magi, Francis says "beforeJesus, all divisions of race, language and culture disappear."

Free meals, food • The A m a dor-Tuolumne Community Action Agency di s tributes food from 10 a.m. to noon on the third Tuesday of each month at All Saints' Catholic Church, corner of Joaquin Gully and Cherokee roads in Twain Harte, and at Tuolumne Memorial Hall, Fir Avenue in Tuolumne; ATCAA Food Bank, 10059 Victoria Way, Jamestown; Church of the Forty Niners, 11155 Jackson St., Columbia; Lake Don Pedro Baptist Church, 4175 Abeto St., La Grange; Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 24176 Pine Lake Drive, Sugar Pine; Sonora Baptist C h urch, 412 Stockton Road, Sonora; Tuolumne County Senior Center, 540 Greenley Road, Sonora; Tuolumne Veterans Memorial Hall, 18375 Fir Ave., Tuolumne. They distribute10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and Friday by appointment at Columbia College. They alsodistribute from 10 a.m. to noon the Friday after the third Tuesday at Groveland Evangelical Free Church, 19172 Ferretti Road, Groveland.

• All Saints operates a food pantryfrom 10 a.m. to noon all other Tuesdays.

• Columbia Presbyterian Church of the 49ers offers free food and clothing each week.

Helen Johnson Community Dinner, f r ee t o all, is served at 6 p.m. every Monday in the church social hall, 11155 Jackson St., Columbia. Donations are accepted butnot required.

Free showers are offered preceding the dinner from 5 to 6 p.m.

ATCAA Food Bank distributesfood at 10 a.m. on third Tuesdays of each month in Lower Sanctuary.

- Nancy's Hope Community Center, located on the church campus, is open daily from 9 to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 10 to 4 p.m.

Saturdays. Many free programs are available. Call 533-2647.

Call the church at 5322441 for more information.

• Faith Lut h e ran Church, 65 Mitchler St., Murphys, hosts a food comm odities distribution o n the first Thursday of each month including dry and canned goods. There is also a food bag distribution from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, available once a month to local residents, in c o njunction with the Murphys Senior Center, co-located on the campus.

For more information, call 728-2041.

• Interfaith Community Social Services, 18500 Striker Court, off Tuolumne Road, Sonora, helps those in need with food, clothing, household linens, showers and haircuts. The program is in need of towels, blankets, sleeping bags, tents, can openers, pots and pans,

small working appliances, silverware, toiletries, bath towels,layettes for babies and linens. There also is a special need for canned soup and cold cereal.

It is open 10 a.m. to 1p.m. weekdays.

Anyone seeking services should bring identification or proof of Tuolumne County residency.

For more information, call 532-0905.

• Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Sugar Pine holds several events each month to help the community.

Events include: - Senior Exercise, 10:30 a.m. every Thursday - Senior Lunch, noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday (call 586-8166 for reservations) - Parish Food Pantry, 10 a.m. to noon, first Tuesday of each month

Worship services begin at 11 a.m. weekly.

The church is at 24176 Pine Lake Drive. Call 5863616 for more information.

• Murphys Covenant Church hosts "His Kitchen," a ministry of free hot meals offered from noon to 1 p.m. each Thursday at the church, 34 Jones St. • Seventh-day Adventist Community Services, 87 S. Forest Road, Sonora, offers clothing, small appliances, blankets, sheets, linens, shoes and coats to anyone in need from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays and Wednesdays. Groceries are given out Mondays and Wednesdays.

For mor e i n f ormation about services or making a

donation, call 532-1872.

• The Food Pantry program at S ie r r a Bi b l e Church distributes food on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the office conference

room at 15171 Tuolumne Road, Sonora.

• St. Matthew Lutheran Church hosts a f re e lunch at the Lambert Community Drop-in Center on the last Saturday of each month.

The lunch is served from noon to 1 p.m. at the Cen-

ter, 347 Jackson St., Sonora.

The Center is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for fellowship and games.

For more information, call 533-4879.

• St. Patrick's Catholic Church serves a free breakfastfrom 6:30 to 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in the parish hall at 127 Jackson St., Sonora.

Everyone is welcome.

• Tuolumne U n i ted Methodist Church offers free food to anyone in need

from 10 to 11 a.m. every S aturday. The church i s at 18851 Cedar St., in Tuolumne. For more information, call 928-1376 or 2063090.

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The program is designed to help t hose struggling with hurts, hang-ups and Norns in Prayer has groups habits. in every state and more than • Celebrate Recovery, a 100 countries worldwide. fellowshipto celebrate God's For more i n f ormation, healing power through the go online to www.momsin12 Steps and 8 Recovery prayer.org Principles, is held at 6:30 • As You See Fit, a boup.m. every Monday at the tique run by the Refuge Sonora Seventh-day Ad- church, is open from 10 a.m. ventist Church. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Separate groups for men Wednesday. and women are ofFered for All the clothes in the store anyone suffering with chem- are donated by local conical and alcohol addictions, signment shops, and cuscodependency, grief recov- tomers can take what they ery, anger, food addiction, need, and pay what they divorce and physical, sexual can. All the proceeds will go or emotional abuse. back to the community.

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• A cancer support group, Snuff Out Cancer, meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Family Community Church in Angels Camp. The church is on Main Street, with a second-floor entrance on Raspberry Lane.

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DOGS Abbott — Great Dane/Labrador mix, brindle and white, male, 1 year Aerah — Lab/aussie mix, black and white, female, 3 years Cashmere —Great Pyrenees, brown, male, 2 years Clinton — Labrador/pit bull mix, brown, male, 2 years Elementary — Chihuahua, tan, male, 2.5 years Jax —Dalmatian/Great Dane mix, black and white, male, 1 year Kyle — Retriever mix, male, tan, 1 year Mary — Miniature pinscher and Chihuahua, tan and white, female, 1 to 2 years Matt — Miniature pinscher and Chihuahua, fawn, male, 1 to 2 years Molly — Shepherd/terrier mix, tricolor, female, 1.5 years Kona —Husky/shepherd mix, tricolor, male, 1 year Remi — Labrador/shepherd mix, red, male,4 years Thor —Labrador/hound mix, tricolor, male, 2.5 years Sebastian —Bassett/flat coat mix, black and white, male, 1.5 years PUPPIES Crockett —Kelpie mix, chocolate, male, 8 months Lucy —Pit/Chow mix, tan and white, female, 12 weeks Peanut — Pocket pit mix, fawn, female, 10 months Piper —Labrador/collie mix, black and white, female, 10 months Prancer —Border collie mix, black and white, male, 3 months Sherlock — Chihuahua/terrier mix, gray and black, male, 8 months Watson — Chihuahua/terrier mix, tan and black, male, 8 months CATS Bluff —Gray, long hair, male, 3.5 years Brldgette — Brown tabby with white, medium hair, female, 1.5 year Crystal — White, short hair, female, 3 years Dayo — Gray tabby, short hair, male,1 year Molly — Gray tabby, short hair, female, 1 year

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KITTENS Bell —Tortoiseshell, medium hair, female, 6 months Garfield —Medium hair, orangetabby,male,8 months Kittens —all kinds Klein — Black and white, Barn Cats —all kinds short hair, male, 5.5 months Velcro — White, brown The Calaveras Humane and tan, medium hair, male, 3 Society does not have a shelmonths

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Cats and dogs are also Thursday and Friday; for ad o ption allservices from 1 to 7 p.m. available f o r C a l averas Wednesday, with telephone through th e hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; County Animal Services. For and for adoptions only from Calaveras County Shelter cats and dogs call 754-6509 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

The Humane Society of or email Rebecca Andahl Tuolumne County (984- at R andahloco.calaveras.

5489) isopen from 9 a.m. ca.us. Business hours are to 3 p.m.Monday through from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 Saturday. Animal viewing to 4 p.m. Tuesday through hours are from 10:30 a.m. to Saturday. Animal viewing 2:30 p.m. Monday through and micro chipping services Saturday. are available during all norBoth areat 10040 Victo- mal business hours.

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Top black master point winner for Mother Lode Duplicate Bridge for December for Monday was David Jenkins with 3.36 points. Top black master point winner for Mother Lode Duplicate Bridge for December for Tuesday was Susan Hamilton with 2.79 points.

Top master point w i nner for Gold Country Duplicate Bridge was Duane Oneto with 2.95 points. Top black master point winners for Sonora Duplicate Bridge for December were Alan and Susan Hamilton with 1.39 points.

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feet last week and should continue to rise with this week' s weather pattern.

Trout fishing is still slow but should change soon as the fish move closer to the shore, chasing shad minnows.

Catching bass is successful for those up to fishing in the cold. During the winter, bass will sometimes go deeper and

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Red Wingsbeat Sharks inSan3ose SAN JOSE (AP)Petr Mrazek made 35 saves, Justin Abdelkader scored with 6:52 remaining and the Detroit Red Wings beat the San Jose Sharks 2-1 on Thursday night for their third straight win.

Danny DeKeyser also scored and Detroit remained perfect midway through a six-game trip.

Mrazek has started each of those three games and allowed four goals.

Joel Ward scored for San Jose, but the Sharks lost their third in four games and fell to a league-worst 5-12 at home.

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a glow c a me Sonora's (above, from left) Nate Patterson, lan Cicero and Damien Kress will take across his face on Summerville's (below, from left) Eli McLaurin, Cameron Saunders and Ethan and the a youthful twinkle ap- McLaurin tonight when the Bears host the Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. in Tuolumne. peared in his eyes.

"I'm stoked to play Sonora," Saunders said. "It's going to be a good game. I'm excited to play agood game and tobeat them."

B eating Sonora on t h e hardwood is not something that Summerville has accomplished in over three years.

The Bears will get a chance to change that tonight in their Mother Lode League season opener as the Wildcats head to Tuolumne for the first of two meetings in 2016.

There are a lot of difficult gyms to play in, but very few schools have the rabid student cheering section like the bs one residing in Tuolumne. The "Bear Cave" makes life difficult for any opposing team, and the Sonora players know See CLASH / Page C3

Sonora girls host Summerville The Sonora Wildcats and Summerville Bears girls' basketball teams will square off at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Bud Castle Gym. Sonora (9-3, 1-0) is fresh off a 5542 win Wednesday over Bret Harte.

Summerville (1-10) is playing in its first Mother Lode League game, but won its first game of the season 39-32Wednesday at home against Escalon.

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Green is about 1,300 votes ahead of San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard in the closest race for a starting spot. Kobe Bryant, the leading votegetter with more than 1.2 million votes, and Kevin Durant are ahead of them among West frontcourt players.

NBA MVP Stephen Curry and Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook are the leaders at guard for the Feb. 14 game in Toronto.

LeBron James, Paul George and Detroit's Andre Drummond top the East frontcourt, with Drummond about 5,600 votes ahead of perennial All-Star Carmelo Anthony. Dwyane Wade and Kyrie Irving top the ballot at guard.

Starters will be announced Jan. 21.

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Greed the motivator as teams rush to LA The people of St. Louis are in a tizzy, If it came as a surprise to loyal Rams and not just because the fans, well, they should team they liked from Los have seen it coming.

Angeles could soon be It wasn't that long ago, T1IIl heading back home.

1995 to be exact, when Apparently it w asn' t then-owner Ge o r gia enough for the Rams to Frontiere strong-armed pack up their gear and the NFL into moving the leave behind a useless Rams from the Los Andome taxpayers built for them. They had gelesarea to St.Louis.Frontiere said to insult the local citizenry on the way so few fans were coming to games that out by calling them lousy fans who can' t the franchise risked bankruptcy by support multiple sports franchises. staying in Anaheim.

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Now the Rams want to go back, to a new stadium development they want to build near the city's airport. In asking the league toleave,the team said that accepting conditions for a new stadium in St. Louis would leave the team "well on the road to financial ruin."

It was, of course, nonsense then. It' s

even more nonsense now.

However the Los Angeles franchise shell game plays out — the Chargers

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Guide John Leichty, of Glory Hole Sports, recommends bringing up fish hooked in deep water with a slow, steady retrieve to allow them to adjustthe bladder to the pressure change. If brought up too fast, the bladder will expand and the fish may die if not relieved.

There are methods to relieve this bloating bladder and still release the fish, which can be explained by contacting Leichty, who is an expert on bass fishing. Contacthim at gloryholesports@ yahoo.corn or 736-4333.

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There will be an off-road vehicle test track and, as always, the Youth Fair, where many free events and give-

aways will be available for the youngsters.

My son Bill, and Steve Hinze, of Aptos, had a good weekend shoot at the Santa Cruz Club, south of Los Banos. We bagged limits on Saturday and Sunday. Lots of green-wing teal were in the

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Giants agree to 3-year, $31M deal with OF Span Denard Span hits an RBI double Sept. 15, 2015 while playing with the Washington Nationals.

Span was signed Thursday by the San Francisco Giants.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After San Francisco signed right handers addressing their holes in the pitching Johnny Cueto to a $130 million, sixrotation early in free agency, the San year contract and Jeff Samardzija to Francisco Giants filled their biggest a $90 million, five-year contract to remaining need Thursday. bolsterthe pitching staffbehind ace The Giantsagreed on a $31 ~ M adis on Bumgarner. m illion, three-year deal with ~g g f~ The team also signed short-"'~ io' stop Brandon Crawford to a free-agent outfielder Denard ~ Span, pending a physical, giv$75 million, six-year contract ing them the center fielder and leadofF extension, raising the offseason tab to they had sought. $326 million for the four players who If Span passes the physical he will w ill solidify the team up the middle. be officially introduced at a news conS p an, who will turn 32 next month, ference on Friday. batted .301 with five homers, 22 RBIs Ithasbeenapriceyoffseason for th and a .365 on-base percentage in 61 Giants, who missed the playoffs last games last season with Washington. year after winning their third World Series title in five seasons in 2014.

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COLLEGEFOOTBALL BASKETBALL o ay 5:00pm (ESPN) NBA BasketballCleveland Cavaliers at Minnesota Timberwolves.

7:00pm (CSBA) NBA Basketball Golden State Warriors at Portland Trail Blazers.

7r30 pm(ESPN) NBA Basketball Oklahoma City Thunder at Los Angeles Lake rs.

FOOTHILLS COLLEGE tur ay Men — Basketball:Columbia at College of Sequoias, 7 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL o ay Boys — Basketball: Summerville vs. Sonora, 7:30 p.m., Tuolumne; Bret Harte at Amador, 7:30 p.m.;Wrestling: Sonora at Apple Cider Tournament, Watsonville; Summerville at Escalon Tournament,9 a.m .

Girls — Basketball:Sonora vs. Summerville, 7:30 p.m., Bud Castle Gym; Bret Harte at Amador, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Boys — Wrestling: Calaveras/Bret Harte, Gordon Hay Invitational, Mike Flock Gym, 9 a.m.; Sonora at Apple Cider Tournament, Watsonville; Summerville at Escalon Tournament, 9 a.m.

ACKERMAN Continued from PageCl area, as well as gadwalls, widgeon, and a few sprigs.

Bill also bagged a snow goose.

I had a late report &om my son Wednesday, who was back at the Santa Cruz Club with Hinze, and this time it was real "duck weather" with cold, strong wlild aild ralil.

Despitethe discomfort, they bagged early limits which included canvasbacks, sprig, teal and another snow goose. It takes dedicatedhunters to get out in those conditions, but it was the kind of shooting day they were hoping for.

The averages at the public shooting grounds also indicate that the migration has finally begun, thanks to the weather.

In the Los Banos Complex, Saturday Kesterson Unit had a 2.68 birds per hunter average; Los Banos a 3.94; Mendota a 3.48; Merced a 3.00; San Luis a 3.10; Volta a 4.54; and Salt Slough a 5.32.

This indicates what weather can do, but it' s kind of late with the season ending Jan.31.

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Last Clemson-Alabama game launched Tide dynasty, led to change

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

The plan was for a Clemson coming out party.

The Tigers had finished strong in 2007 and entered the 2008 season with a Top 10 ranking. It seemed like the perfecttime for the Tigers to take on a marquee Southeastern Conference opponent at an NFL stadium in a nationally televised game.

Tmm out it was Nick Saban andAlabama that made the statement in the Georgia Dome.

Coming off a 7-6 season, the Crimson Tide crushed No. 9 Clemson 34-10 and Nick Saban's Alabama dynasty was born.

"I didn'texpect that type of outcome," said former Alabama quarterback and current ESPN and SEC Network analyst Greg McElroy. "Most peopledidn't expectthat type of outcome. When Coach Saban was able to come to us after the game and say, 'Look at the hard work you put in and lookatthefruitsofyourlabor,' that allowed us to really have a perspect ive thatwe can beat anybody we played if we do what we' re supposed to do in the week leading up."

Alabama went on to play for the SEC championship that season and the Tide has done nothing but contend for national championships since.

The loss led to changes at Clemson that ended up putting the Tigers on the path to playing for a national championship seven years later.

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In the offseason, players such as center Antoine CaldweH and safety Rashad Johnson moved into leadership mles, younger players such as linebacker Rolando McClain and defensive back Kareem Jade developed into impact players and a star-studded freshman that included receiver Julio Jones and linebacker Dont'a Kghtower came on board.

"We realized that we were going to be better. Things were going to be going better. Maybe weal go 9-3," said McElroy, who backed up in 2008 before leading Alabama to its first championship the next season.

Then came Clemson and a dominant performance. Alabama outgained the Tigers more than 2-to-1 and did not allow an offensive touchdown.

"We' re sitting there thinking to ourselves, if that's a top-10 team in the country, well then make it four titles in nine sea- what are we?" McElroy said. "I sons Monday night in Glen- think that was a launch-pad dale, Arizona, when they face moment for us."

No. 1 Clemson (14-0) again, While that last meeting this time in the College Foot- between the Tigers and Tide ball PlayofF title game. was just the be~ for Saban came to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, it was the beginning Alabama, with great fanfare of the end for then-Clemson after a short stint with the Mi- coach Tommy Bowden.

"Disappointment would be ami Dolphins. Alabama had spentyears trying to recreate the correl word," then-Clemthe Bear Bryant era with only son athletic director Terry Don scattered success.

Phillips said. "We finished the The 10yearsdirectly before previous season in strong fashSaban was hire were particu- ion. Then we had this opportularly frustrating. Only twice nity to be showcased nationaldid Alabama win more than ly with Alabama, and Alabama seven games, and four times had struggledthe previous the Tide finished with a losing season so you go in with a derecord. The Tide went through gree of optimism." five head coaches.

By midseason, Bowden was Saban'sfi rst year was not out and wide receivers coach much to get excited about. The Dabo Swinney was elevated Tide went 7-6, with a four-game to run the program. In a sense, losing streak to end the regular that game was the start of season that induded a home something big for the Tigers, lose to Louisiana-Monme. too. In nine and a half seasons "I think that when you start under Bobby Bowden's son, the a program ... you really have Tigers had become so synonyto establish fundamental sort mous with inconsistency the of intangiblesthat are going term 'Clemsoning' was coined to help you build the kind of to describe a disappointing and character, competitive charac- unexpected loss. ter in the people that you have Under Swinney, Clemson in the organization to get them has won at least 10 games to be all that they can be, and each of the last five seasons. that says a lot aboutthe atti- The charismatic coach has tude that the players have, and improved recruiting, helping lure 5-star prospects like quarterback Deshaun Watson and receiver Sammy Watkins away SEC schools, installed an up-tempo spreadoff ense and has taken a top-to-bottom approach to building the program similar to Saban's.

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that's certainly a challenge," Saban said.

McElroy said some of the upperclassmen in 2007 were not quite ready to do the work the new coach demanded.

The talent to a certain extent wasn't overwhelming, but let's be honest, Nick Saban is demanding," McElroy said. "To the point where it can wear you out fmm time to time. The thing that's fun, what makes it fun is you win."

McElroy said the true turning point for the program was Alabama's30-27 victory against Colorado in the Independence Bowl to end '07.

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Bear Valley /Courtesy photo (above) Bill Rozsk/ Union Democrat (below)

With about 2 feet of fresh snow dumped on Bear Valley and Dodge Ridge (below) the past two days, the name of the game Thursday morning through the afternoon was powder under bluebird skies. A pair of skiers (above) make fresh tracks at Bear Valley. Chair 7 (below) at Dodge was packed early before the backside of the mountain opened later in the morning. Snow is removed (below, middle) from the parkin area near Chair 5. A snowboarder (bottom) cruises down Exhibition, a run below Chair 7.

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occupying a new stadium in it — whether the proposed Continued from PageCl development by the Rams in Inglewood or a shared faand Raiders also filed this cility for the Chargers and week to move to LA — the Raiders in nearby Carsonidea that an NFL team might is about as close as it gets to be in financial difficulty is a license to print money. laughable. Massive guarWhile Southern Califoranteed TV contracts shared nia residents haven't exactly equally among the 32 teams been holding demonstrations — last year each got $226.4 in the streets demanding a million just from TV alone- team, there will surely be almost guarantee expenses enough to fill whatever stawill be paid before any tick- dium or stadiums eventually ets are sold. get built. But the real value It's also not about fans, lies in a wide open market in or the lack of them, as the the second largest city in the Rams suggested in their 29- country that all three teams page application to leave St. can't wait to exploit.

Louis. There are more than According to Forbes, the enough loyal fans to fill the Rams ranked 29th among new $1.1 billion stadium the 32 NFL teams last year thatcivicleaders arepropos- with a valuation of $1.45 biling in St. Louis in what looks lion. That's not bad considerlike a futile effort to keep the ing the team was essentially team. valued at about half that just No, the move for all three six years ago when owner teams is about potential and Stan Kroenke scooped up potential valuation. The LA the 60 percent he didn't own market is big and vast, and from heirs of Frontiere.

It's entirely conceivable — actually almost guaranteed — that the team's value could double again the minute it moves to Los Angeles.

And with that much money at stake, there should be some interesting conversations among the very rich when NFL owners meet next week with a decision on the Los Angeles moves on the table.

"There will probably be at least one team moving to LA," said Kansas City owner Clark Hunt, a member of the league's relocation committee. "I can't speculate who that might be."

Hunt might not, but we

come up with drawings for the old Hollywood Park site Kroenke already controls.

Kroenke says it can host two teams, and that he is willing to invest $800 million in equity on his own plus a "reasonable"relocation fee.

The Chargers and Raiders have proposed their own joint stadium in Carson, but there won't be two stadiums built.

The most likely scenario is that the Rams and Chargers team up in one stadium, and the Raiders are offered some sort of consolation prize to remain in Oakland.

That will make everyone happy except, of course, the fans of San Diego and St. Cail.

Louis who for generations The Rams aren't staying have supported NFL teams. in St. Louis, that's increasNo matter, because they' ve ingly clear. There could even always been the last considbe a case made that they eration in a league ruled by rightfully belong back in LA, greed. and that's where they will go.

The same company that Tin Dahlberg is a sports designed Jerry Jones' monu- columnist for The Associated ment to himself in Dallas has Press.

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BRIEFS Griffey choosesMs; Piazzathe Mets NEW YORK (AP) Ken Griffey Jr. will go into the Hall of Fame with a Seattle Mariners' cap and Mike Piazza will have a New York Mets' hat.

The pairmade their announcements at a news conference Thursday, a day after they were elected by the Baseball Writers' AssociationofAmerica.

Griffey spent a lengthy period of his career with Cincinnati, and P i azza reached the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Griffey is the first Mariners' player in the Hall.

Induction ceremonies will be held in Cooperstown on July 24.

Known for wearing his cap backwards, Griffey joked about that with Piazza, the top offensi ve catcherin baseballhistory.

Beyonce to perform at Super Bowl 50 NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce is returning to the Super Bowl halfbme show.

Pepsi confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the 34-year-old singer will perform at the Feb. 7 show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Last month, Coldplay announced it would perform at the hamime show.

Beyonce headlined the 2013 Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans at the Superdome, where she was joined by her Destiny Child's bandmates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

Beyonce and Coldplay recently collaborated on the band's new album, "A Head Full of Dreams."

Favre, Owens, Faneca among Hall finalists CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Brett Favre is one step away &om entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The quarlerback who left the NFL afierthe 2010 season as the leader in most career passing categories, is

among three first-time eligibles to make the list of 15 finalists. Receiver Terrell Owens and @md Alan Faneca, also in their initial year of eligibility, made the cut.

The class of 2016 will be decided on Feb. 6, the day before the Super Bowl, with inductions scheduled for August.

Also making the cut to 15 are Morten Andersen, Steve Atwater, Don Coryell, Terrell Davis, Tony Dungy, Kevin Greene, Marvin Harrison, Joe Jacoby, EdgerrinJames, John Lynch, Orlando Pace and Kurt Warner.

Two senior finalists — players whose careers ended more than 25 years ago — were announced last August: Ken Stabler and Dick Stanfel.

A contributor finalist announced in September was Edward DeBartolo Jr., owner of the San Francisco 49ers &om 1977-2000.

To be elected, a finalist must receive a minimum of 80 percent of the votes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shortly after LAFC revealedits black-and-darkgold colors and eye-catching new crest in a gala ceremony, Will Ferrell camed a director' schaironstageand sat down between co-owner

Peter Guber and Mayor EricGarcetti.

"I want in," LAFC's 25th and newest co-owner said.

This is a common sentiment in downtown Los Angeles, where the Major League Soccer expansion club is already attracting plenty of attention more than two years before anybody officially kicks a ball.

LAFC unveiled its colors and crest Thursday at Union Station amid cheering and singing from several dozen fans of a team that has no players or stadium yet. The club will join MLS for the 2018 season, but it already has an identity built around those colorsand a logo featuring a wing incorporated into

an Art Deco-inspired "LA" monogram.

GIANTS Continued from PageCl He missed time with injuries to his back, left hip and right core but is expected to be healthy again to start this season.

In an eight-year career with Washington and Minnesota, has a .287 career average, with a .352 onbase percentage and .395 slugging percentage. He also has 152 career stolen basesand is a contact hitter who fits the Giants'

style of play.

Nori Aoki and Angel Pagan split time in the leadofFspot last year for the Giants. San Francisco declined a $5.5 million option to keep Aoki and was looking to upgrade from Pagan, who had a .310 onbase percentage last season and has been limited by injuries the past three years.

Pagan couldmove from center field to left field to make room for Span this year.

Span can earn additional money in performance bonuses.

cast by the selection panel. A maximum ofeight inducteesareallowed peryear.

The ultimate gun-slinging quarterback, Favre led the Packers to the 1996 NFL championship and was a threetime league MVP. He retire as the NFL's leading passer with 6,300 completions, 10,169 attempts, 71,838 yards and 508 touchdowns.

Owens played for five teams in his 16 pro seasons, making the Super Bowl with the 2004 Eagles. He ranks second in yards rixeiving (15,934), third in touchdown options (153) and set a then-record for catches in a single game with 20 against the Bears in 2000.

Faneca was one of the NFL's best blockers for 13 seasons and 206 games, making the All-Decade Team of the 2000s. A six-time All-Pro, he anchored the offensive lines of the Steelers, Jets and Cardinals, winning one Super Bowl.

Andersen is the career scoring leader with 2,544 points in 25 seasons for five teams. He also is tops in field goals (565), and games played (382), and his 40 fi eld goalsof50-plusyardswerethe most in NFL history at his retirement in 2004. He was voted to two All-Decade

Teams (1980s and 1990s).

Among the other finalists, Dungy rebuilt the moribund Tampa Bay &anchise, then won the 2007 Super Bowl with Indianapolis, the first black coach to win the NFL championship. The other coaching finalists is Coryell, whose offense (Air Coryell) was the most potent of its day. Considered an innovator in the passing game, Coryell was 11183-1 with the C~ s a n dC ~ rs in 14 seasons.

Harrison starred for Dungy with the Coltsand had 1,102 receptions for 14,580 yards and 128 touchdowns, making the All-Decade Team of the 2000s. He had 59 100-yard games.

James was a teammate of Harrison's

in Indianapolis, and also played for Arizona and Seattle. The 1999 Offensive Rookie of the Year, he was a seven-time 1,000-yard rusher and won two rushing Davis is one ofseven players to gain 2,000 yards in a season, rushing for 2,008 in 1998. He scored 22 touchdowns on the ground that year and was the league's MVP. Davis won two Super Bowls with Denver.

Atwater was another Broncos stand-

out,ahard-hitting safetyfor10 seasons, also winning NFL titles in 1997 and 1998. And another safety among the finalists, Lynch played for the Broncos following an 11-season stint in Tampa Bay, where he won one Super Bowl.

Lynch was an integral part of the Bucs' shutdown Tampa-2 defense.

Jacoby, one of the stalwarts of the Hogs, Washirigton's outstanding offensive line that helped win three Super Bowls, made the 1980s All-Decade Team at tackle. Pace was a dominant

tackle for the Rams for 10 seasons, winning one Super Bowl. He was the top selection in the 1997 draft and made five All-Pro teams.

Pace blocked for Warner when the quarterback, who had been stodk~ grocery shelves while trying to get an NFL job, led the Rams to the 1999 championship. Warner won two league MVP awards,and also guided Arizona to its only Super Bowl appearance aker the 2008 season.

Gre.ne was one of the NFL's top sackmasters&om 1985-97 for four teams.

He finished his career with 160 sacks, third on the career list when he retired, and made the 1990s All-Decade Team.

Loaded Cards use bye week to prep for possible foes TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Loaded atpretty much every position, the Arizona Cardinals are in a "win now" mode.

That's true of their 63-yearoldcoach and especially true of their 36-year-old quarterback. Carson Palmer finally is in position to go for the first playoff victory of his 13-year NFL career, and knows he won't have many more chances like this.

With a 13-3 record, the Cardinals earned a first-round bye. They will play at home Jan. 16 against either Minnesota, Washington or Green

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They wasted no time in preparingforthose three potential opponents.

Each of their three practices during the bye week zoned

Seattle in their regular-season finale was an aberration. ''We believe that if we play our game," Larry Fitzgerald said, " we can beat anybody."

in on one of them: Green Bay

Arizona had won nine in a

on Wednesday, Minnesota on Thursday, Washington on Friday.

It will give the Cardinals a head start when practice resumes next week.

"There will be some minor touches when we find out who we play," coach Bruce Arians said. But the majority of all three game plans is finished."

The Cardinals are convincedtheir36-6 home lossto

row entering the game and had sewn up the No. 2 seed in the NFC (behind No. 1 Carolina) the previous week, so the Seahawks game hurt nothing exceptthe Cardinals'pride. ''We had a very great stretch and now I see the same thing in their eyes," Arians said. "There's something to play for. There's something to preparefor,justlikewe did for nine weeks."

CLASH Continued from PageC1 they cannot let the Bears fans take them out of the game.

'The Summerville fans have a ton of energy," said Wildcat junior Nate Patterson. "Some guys let an energetic gym get in their head. But we need to stay focused and do what we do on the court and not really focus on the fans."

The "Bear Cave" can be called energetic or extreme, but for Sonora's head coach Dan Dona, he feels that the environment in the gym last year was the epitome of what a high school game should be and he hopes that gets replicated tonight.

"Last year's game up there was a perfect high school atmosphere," Dona said. "So I'm hoping for the same atmosphere."

With Sonora in its second year in the MLL, the excitement of the game might not be as strong as it was when the two teams met only once during the preseason. However, Dona knows how big the game is for Tuolumne County.

"I think I get a little more excited about the game just because of what it means to the community," Dona said.

"As faras getting too excited,I'm pretty old now and I just wanna try to win every game. I don't think that in leagueone game isnecessarily bigger than the rest."

Now, instead of the game being aboutbragging rights for a year,itis more about winning league and playoff seeding. And in the long run, that will mean much more at the end of the season.

'The game has lost a little bit of the luster because they (Sonora) are in the league and we play them twice as a league opponent," said Summerville head coach Ben Watson. 'The importance of the game is still there. However, you used to play once a year and it wasforpreseason bragging rights.

Now, it's not as much bragging rights as it is an opportunity to compete for league or playoffs. In fact, the game is a littlemore important as far as the

final standings at the end of the year.

But probably not as emotional. However, any time you are playing against people you know, it's a big deal."

The atmosphere in the gym won' t mean much if the players on the court do not perform well. Fortunately, both teams are playing good basketball heading into tonight's game.

Sonora (9-4, 1-0 MLL) has won seven of its last nine games, including a 63-55 MLL victory Tuesday over Bret Harte at Bud Castle Gym. Sonora, at long last, has its full roster. After injuries and a long football season, the 'Cats are now as close to

full strength as they will be. For senior Ian Cicero, it took him a while to get adjustedto life without pads afier a

Palmer, a Heisman Trophy Palmer got another chance winner at USC and drafted by two years later when the BenCincinnati as the No. 1 pick gals made the playoffs as a overall in 2003, has played in wild card, but lost to the Jets.

162 NFL games, but just two Then came his bitter holdin the postseason. The first out with the Bengals in 2011 came in 2005, his second sea- and a brief, difficult time with son as a starter. the Oakland Raiders before Arians watched &om the he was traded to Arizona, opposite sideline as Pitts- essentially for just a sixthburgh's wide receivers coach round draft pick, aAer the when Palmer dropped back 2012 season. on his first passing play and Through it all, Palmer said, completed a 66-yar der to he never lost hope that he' d Chris Henry. But Palmer appearin the playoffs again.

"Just knew it would hapnever saw the completion. He was hit, went to the ground pen," he said. "I didn't know writhing in pain with a tom when or how, but I just exACL and MCL. pecteditand prepared forit."

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Sonora's Damien Kress (left) and Summerville's Cameron Saunders (right) practice Thursday for their respective teams. The Wildcats and Bears will play at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Tuolumne. football season that lasted until the middle of December.

"It took a week or two to get my basketball legs back," laughed Cicero.

"But once I got back into the swing of things, it all came back to me."

Sonora isn't taking Summerville lightly. The 'Cats know that the Bears have shooters who can score at any time. And two of the most dangerous shooters look awfully similar to each other.

"Summerville is really good at passing the ball inside and kicking it out," Patterson said. "And you always have to worry about the two twins (Ethan and Eli McLaurin) when it comes to shooting."

Senior twin brothers Ethan and Eli McLaurin, play on the court as if they can read each other's thoughts. The twins are the two Summerville players that Patterson is most concerned with.

They are good shooters and are both pretty tall," Patterson said. "They are definitely good players and we will have to play good defense against them."

Both McLaurins are three-year varsity players, and for Eli, he knows what to expect tonight against the Wildcats.

"I think it's going to be just another game, but it's Sonora, so you know it' s

going to be a tough one," Eli said. 'We just have to play to the best of our abilities. We need to rebound and put them backup.Our shooting and ourdefense is getting better, so that's something to look out for."

Summerville (10-5), like Sonora, has won seven of its last nine games. The Bears beat Escalon Tuesday night on the road.Having one fi nalgame before the beginning of league play was something that Watson feels is good for his team. ''We needed to get in the habit of playing two games a week," Watson said. "I didn't want to go &om the Columbia Tournament to the Sonora game without playing. Playing Escalon gave us some court minutes and

made it more realistic as far as the Tuesday-Friday shufHe as the rest of the season will be."

Ethan McLaurin, though excited to play Sonora and equally excited for the beginning of MLL play, doesn't want to put too much emphasis on just one game.

"I think any game in league is a must win for us, because every game counts towards playoffs and our goal is to be in the playoffs," Ethan said. 'We still need to work on our defense. I'd say that is one of our weaknesses. In the game's we' ve won, we played good

team defense. But in the games we lost, we just fell apart defensively. We just need to stop the penetration and

the things that lead to easy buckets on the other end."

It is easy to say that the game is just another game, but there is a different feeling and emotion when players have a &iendship with members in a opposite uniform. Sonora sophomore Damian Kress is playing in his first varsity contest against Summerville, and there are a number of Bears players he would like to impress.

"I have a lot of &lends over there," Kress said. "I'm good &iends with Cole Brewster, who is injured. I know a number of guys over there and it is going to be really fun playing against them."

Though the MLL title will not be won or lost with the outcome of tonight's game, one team will have a blemish on its league record. But with two teams so evenly matched, the fans should get their money's worth.

"They area pretty good team and they have pretty good players," Dona said. "And I'd like to think that we are a pretty good team and have pretty goodplayers.Sothatshould make for, at thevery least,pretty darn good entertainment for a Friday night."

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Kings hold off Lakers in Bryant's Sacto farewell SACRAMENTO (AP) — DeMar- points and Kosta Koufos added 14.

With Bryant on the bench the cus Cousins had 29 points, 10 re- RajonRondohadninepointsand 12 entire fourth quarter, Russell and bounds and seven assists, and assists.

Clarkson brought the Lakers back. the Kings blew all of a 27-point Judgingby thelargenumber The two combined for 14 points to lead inthe second half before of fans wearing his jersey and cut the Kings' lead to four points beating the Los Angeles Lakthe roar that greeted him dur- at the 7:17 mark. Russell made a ers 118-115 on Thursday ing a long pregame introduc- 3-pointer and Clarkson followed night in Kobe Bryant's last p e tion, it was clear that many with a basket, giving Los Angeles a 109-108 lead with 3:49 left.

Sacramento appearance. theon sellout 17,386 Although the Kings were ROUgpUp inwere handcrowd for oneofreason: Tip-ms ahead 25-4 five minutes into to honorBryant's 33rd and fi the game, they needed a late rally n al game at Sleep Train Arena.

Lakers: Bryant's first game in and a go-ahead basket from RaBry a nt, who missed the previous Sacramento was Dec. 10, 1996, his jon Rondo to spoil the night for the t h ree games with a sore right shoul- rookie season.. The youthful Lak37-year-old Bryant, who thrilled the der, had his first shot barely hit the ers have three rookies and two firstrim and his next one was an airball year players.. Former Kings forward partisan crowd with 28 points.

Bryant made 10 of 18 shots and on a 3. However, he scored seven Metta World Peace was not in uniwas 6 for 8 on free throws. But he points in the first quarter and added form but was at the game. was on the bench for the night by 1 1 more in the second on a couple Kings: Actor Jamie Foxx sat courtthe time the Lakers made a huge of vintage baskets in traffic, plus an side next to Kings owner Vivek comeback to take the lead down the alley-oop dunk.

Ranadive.. The Lakers traded Vlade stretch.

Rondo made afl oater in the lane Divac to the Charlotte Hornets for Rookie D'Angelo Russell scored 11 with 21.7 seconds left, giving the the draft rights to the 17-year-old of his 27 points in the fourth quarter K i ngs a 116-115 lead. Clarkson lost Bryant in 1996. Divac is now the before having to leave with an an- the ball on a dribble drive and fouled Kings' general manager. . Omri kle injury for the Lakers, who have Cousins, who made two &ee throws Casspi missed his third straight droppedfive straight games to the for a three-point lead with 6.8 sec- game with back problems and rookie Kings and have the NBA's second- onds left.

Willie Cauley-Stein (finger laceraworst record behind Philadelphia.

Willi a ms missed a potential tying tion) missed his second straight.

Lou Williams had 20 points for the 3-pointer in the closing seconds and Lakers and Jordan Clarkson had 12 Acy secured the rebound.

Bulls 101, Celtics 92 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter.

T h eL akers trailed by 16 points CHICAGO (AP) — Pau Gasol had Rudy Gay scored 18 points and heading into the fourth quarter 17 points and 18 rebounds, Derrick Quincy Acy had a season-high 18 for when they outscored Sacramento Rose scored 18 points, and the Chithe Kings. Ben McLemore had 16 29-16. cago Bulls beat the Boston Celtics

101-92 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory.

Jimmy Butler added 19 points and 10 assists.

The Bulls used a big third quarter to extend their longest win streak of

the season and handed the Celtics their fourth loss in five games.

Boston coach Brad Stevens missed this one to visit cancer-stricken former Butler center Andrew Smith, who played on the Bulldogs' two runs to the national championship game.

He has been battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and was scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant Thursday, according to The Boston Globe.

With assistant Jay Larranaga filling in for Stevens, Boston got 17 points &om Jae Crowder. Kelly Olynyk added 16 points and nine rebounds, but the Celtics shot just 35.7 percent and were 5 of 25 on 3-point

shot 54percent from the field and 42

percent &om 3-point range against the NBA's worst team en route to their most lopsided win of the season.

Rookie Jahlil Okafor led the Sixers with 21 points, while Nerlens Noel had nine points and 13 rebounds.

Recently acquired point guard Ish Smith finished with 12 points and seven assists.

Rockets 103, Jazz 94 HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 33 points to lead Houston to its second victory over Utah in four days.

The Rockets won 93-91 Monday in Salt Lake City. Harden had 30 points in that one and has scored at least 30 in three of his last four games.

Playing without Dwight Howard, who sat out with lower back tighters. ness, the Rockets beat the Jazz for the 10th time in the last 12 meetHawks 126, 76ers 98 ings.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kent Gordon Hayward scored 15 points Bazemore scored 22 points,Paul for Utah. Center Rudy Gobert Millsap and Al Horford had 18 played for the first time since sprainapiece and Atlanta blew out Phila- ing ale knee ligament on Nov. 30. delphia to snap a two-game losing He was limited to just 15 minutes streak. but chipped in six points and three Dennis Schroder added 14 points rebounds. off the bench for the Hawks, who

TENNIS

Novak Djokovic joins Rafael Nadal in Qatar Open semis DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Top-seeded fourth-seeded David Ferrer in the Novak Djokovic survived a sec- first round, defeated seventh-seedond setchallenge to dismiss ed Jeremy Chardy of France eighth-seeded Le o n ardo TFNNl$ 6 -3, 7-6 (3).

Mayer of Argentina 6-3, 7-5 R UNpUp "I saw him play during the whole week," said Nadal. to reach the Qatar Open "He's playing fantastic. The semifinal Thursday.

Mayer made four unforced match against David was errors when serving for the second great, and today against Jeremy he set at 5-4 which opened the door for played amazing, too. He's playing Djokovicto take a straight-setvic- with big confidence." tory.

He will play Tomas Berdych in the semifinals against whom he has Tomic upsets Nishikori, sets a 21-2 winning record. Berdych, of up SF vsRaonic in Brisbane BRISBANE, Australia (AP)the Czech Republic, beat Kyle Edmund of Britain 6-3, 6-2.

Bernard Tomic ended Kei Nishiko"I think I' ve played better first ri's streak of semifinal appearances and second sets, but credit to him at the Brisbane International with for being solid and going for his a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 win over the secondshots," Djokovic said. "The second s eeded Japanese player in t h e set was very close and it could've quarterfinals on Friday.

Tomic's first win over a t op-10 gone his way. It was a good test to see where I am." player on home soil earned him a Despite being broken four times, spot inthe last four against 2015 second-seeded Rafael Nadal ad- finalist Milos Raonic and a possible vanced to the semifinals with a top 16 seeding for the Australian 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 win against Andrey Open, which starts Jan. 18 in MelKuznetsov of Russia. bourne.

"He played so crazy with amazing Fourth-seeded Raonic, who lost shots," said Nadal. "It's true that I the Brisbane final last year to Rogmissed the serve more times than er Federer, relied on hisbig serve to what I wanted. I think I played a dictate play in a 6-4, 6-4 win over great third set, because if not, I will No. 78-ranked Lucas Pouille.

finalist, won five straight games in

Lisicki three times.

"Today was, I am not going to say some of the best tennis I have played because the rallies were really short, but I feel like I have definitel y got better,"W atson said.

"When Iwas warming up beforethe match I knew I was feeling great in allaspects ofmy game."

At Auckland, New Z ealand, me," Tomic said. "Last year, unfor- Julia Goerges reached her sixth tunately, I lostvery comfortably to WTA Tour final and her first in Kei,and today played very differ- four years when she beat qualifier ent."

Tamira Paszek 6-4, 6-2 in an ASB Federer will play Grigor Dimi- Classic semifinal between two playtrov in the quarterfinals on Friday ers on the comeback trail. night. The winner of that match G oer ges, ranked 5 0th, l a st will play either third-seeded Marin reached a final at Dubai in 2012 Cilic or No. 8 Dominic Thiem. when her ranking peaked at No. 15.

At the Hopman Cup at Perth, Paszek was playing her seventh Andy Murrayand Heather Watson match at the tournament aker wineach had 6-3, 6-4 wins over German ning her way through qualifying opponents — Alexander Zverev and into the main draw. She beat forSabine Lisicki — to stay in conten- mer FrenchOpen champion Frantion for Saturday's final. cesca Schiavone in the first round Murray and Watson needed to and alsoseems to be approaching win the mixed doubles match being her bestform as she prepares to played later Friday and hope that play the qualifying tournament for the Australia Green team, which the Australian Open. had a 2-0 record in the round-robin part of the tournament, loses to US women's team takes first France in a night match. Australia Olympia berth Green can secure a spot in the final step toward Rio against Ukraine with a win over LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — On the

in his right pocket to show his players and acknowledge a significant steptoward the goalofreaching the Rio Olympics.

One set down against a Canada team defending with tenacity, then two more Thursday night. The world's top-ranked Americans need nine winning sets in all this week to secure their bid — afler missing a chancetodo so atlast year'sW orld Cup in Japan. Kiraly has nine such cards with him, an idea inspired &om reading tennis star Andre Agassi's autobiography "Open" a few years back and his approach to filing each set away during the course of a Grand Slam.

Kiraly shared that with his team.

"That's one way to think about it is really go hard for this next point and do that for a set of volleyball," Kiraly said. "And if we get one of those, they can't take it away from us. It gets us a little closer to the easiest route to winning this tournament, which is to try to notch nine sets."

Jordan Larson returned with fanfare to her home state of Nebraska as she helped lead the U.S. to the 2518, 25-18, 25-15 victory over Canada in the opener of its NORCECA Olympic qualifying tournament,

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ScoREs R MoRE Football NFL Wildcard Plsyalfs Saturday's games Kansas City (11-5) at Houston (9-7), 1:35 p.m.

(ABGESPN) pittsburgh u 0-6) at cincinnati (12-4), 5:15 p.m.

(CBS)

Sunday's games Seattle (106) at Minnesata (11-6), 10 B.m.(NBC) Green Bayu 04) atwashington (9 7), 190 p m.

(FOX) Divisional Phyoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 Cincinnati, Houston or Kansas City at New England (12-4), 1:35 (CBSj Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay at Aizona (13-3), 5:15 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Jan. 17 Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at Carolina (15-1 ), 10:05 a.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh, Kansas City or Houston at Denver

(12-4), 1:30 p.m. (CBS)

2015-16 NCAA BcwvlGlance Monday's game College Foatbsll Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

clemson (144) vs. Alabama u3-1 ), 530 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petwsbu~, Ra. East vs. West, 1 p.m. (NFLN)

NFLPA CollegiateBowl

At Canon National vs. Amescan, 3 p.m. (EspN2) Saturday, Jan. 30 Senior Bowl At Mobih, Ah. North vs. South, 11:30 a.m. (NFLN)

Basketball National Basketball ssocialmn EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 2 2 15 .59 5 Boston 19 17 .5 2 8 2 ' / 2 New York 18 1 9 A 86 4 Brooklyn 10 2 5 .2 8 6 11 Philadelphia 4 3 4 .1 0 5 1 P/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 2 1 14 .60 0 Atlanta 2 2 15 .59 5 Orlando 19 17 .5 2 8 2 ' / 2 Charlotte 17 1 8 A 86 4 Washington 15 1 8 A55 5 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 24 9 .727 Chicago 22 12 .6 4 7 2 ' / 2 Indiana 20 1 5 .5 7 1 5 Detroit 20 16 .5 5 6 5 ' / 2 Milwaukee 14 2 3 .3 7 8 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 31 6 .838 Dallas 21 15 .5 8 3 9 ' / ~ Memphis 19 1 8 .5 1 4 12 Houston 18 1 9 A86 13 NewOrleans 11 2 3 .3 2 4 1 P/2 Northwest Division

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Thursday's games Atlanta 126, Philadelphia 98 Chicago 101, Boston 92 Houston 103, Utah 94 Sacramento 118, LA Lakers 115 Today's games Toronto st Washington, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Brooklyn,430 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Indiana at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 5 p.m.

New York at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Phoenix, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at LA. lakers, 7:30 p.m

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KINGS 118, LAKERS 115 LA. LAKERS(115) Bryant10-186828, Nance Jr. 3-53-39, Hibbert 0-1 040,Clarkson6-143-315,Williams7-1334 20, Russell 11-1 62-3 27, Randle 1-4 4-4 6, Bass 3-3 4-4 10, Brown 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 41-75 25-29 115.

SACRAMENTO (118)

Gay 8-1 6 1-3 18, Acy 8-9 2-3 18, Cousins 8-1 2 11-1 3 29, Rondo 4-1 01-2 9, McLe more 7-1 51-3 16,Anderson(M040, Koufos7-90-014, Belinelli 4-9 2-3 11, Collison 1-3 04 3, Cuny 0-2 04 0. Totals 47-85 18-27 118.

LA. Lakers 21 27 38 29 — 115 Sacramento 38 31 33 16 — 118 3-Point Goals — LA Lakers 8-24 (Russell 3-7, Williams 3-8, Bryant 2-6, Brown 0-1, Clarkson 0-2), Sacramento 6-21 (Cousins 2-3, Collison 1-1, Belinelli 1-4, McLemore 1-5, Gay 1-6, Curry 0-1, Rondo 0-1 ).Fouled Out —None. Rebounch —LA

Lakers 39(Randle 10),Sacramento 46 (Cousins

10). Assists — L.A. Lakers 20 (Russell, Bass, Clarkson 4), Sacramento 32 (Rondo 12). Total Fouls— LA. Lakers26,Sacramento 20.Technicals —sacramento defensive three second z

A — 17$86u 7+17).

Hockey National Hockey League EAST' CONFERENCE Athntic Division G P W L O r l t s GF GA Florida 4 1 25 12 4 5 4114 88 Detroit 4 1 21 13 7 4 9103 107 Montreal 4 2 23 16 3 4 9121 104 Boston 3 8 20 14 4 4 4118 105 Ottawa 4 1 19 16 6 4 4116 123 Tampa Bay 4 0 19 17 4 4 2101 98 Toronto 3 9 16 16 7 3 9104 105 Buffalo 4 0 15 21 4 3 4 92 110 Metropolitan DMsion G P W L O T l t s GF GA Washington 4 0 3 0 7 3 63 128 86 N .Y.Islanders 41 2 2 1 4 5 4 9114 103 N .Y.Rangers 4 0 2 2 1 4 4 4 8118 105 N ew Jersey 4 1 2 0 1 6 5 4 5 94 97 Pittsburgh 40 19 16 5 43 9 4 9 9

3 9 1 7 1 5 7 4 1 8 7 1 0 8 Mayer (Sj, Argentina, 6-3, 7-5.

4 1 16 18 7 3 9 9 4 1 14 Tomas Berdych (3), Aech Republic, def. Kyle 41 15 2 3 3 3 3 1 0 5 131 Edmund, Britain, 6-3, 6-z

Dallas Chicago St. Louis Minnesata Nashville Colorado Winnipeg

43 29 10 4 6 2 148 114 42 25 13 4 5 4 117 100 43 23 14 6 5 2 106 107 4 0 21 1 1 8 5 0 108 9 6 19 14 7 4 5 104 106 41 20 18 3 4 3 117 114 41 19 19 3 4 1 109 117 PaciTic Division GP W L OTPtsGF GA L osAngeles 4 0 2 6 1 2 2 5 4 10 7 8 8 Aszona 40 20 16 4 4 4 112 125 Vancouver 41 16 1 6 9 4 1 100 115 Calgary 40 19 19 2 4 0 105 124 Anaheim 39 16 16 7 3 9 7 3 94 San Jose 38 18 1 8 2 3 8 1 0 2 108 Edmonton 41 17 2 1 3 37 1 0 2 122 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thuralay's games Dallas 2, Winnipeg 1, SO Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Florida 3, Ottawa 2 Philadelphia 4, Minnesota 3, OT

Arizona z calgary 1

Los Angeles z Toronto 1 Detroit z san Jose 1 Today's games Boston at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Columbus at Carolina, 4 p m.

Buffalo at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Detroit

RED WINGS 2, SHARKS 1 1 0

BrisbaneInternational Thursday, AtQueenshnd TennisCentre

Brisbane, Australia Puma Men, $404,780 (WT250); Women, $885~ (hemier) Surface: Hsnl&utdoor Singles-Men-Second Round Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def. Tobias Kamke, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.

Milos Raonic (4), Canada, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-4.

Lucas Pouille, France, def. David GoSim (6), Belgium, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3.

Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def. Viktor Troicki,

serbia, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-z

Women — Quarterfinsls

Angelique Kerber (4), Germany, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 6-4, 6-4.

Carla Suarez Navarro (6), Spain, def. Varvara Lepchenko,UnitedStates,4-6,6-4,7-5.

Victoiia Azarenka, Belarus, def. Roberta Vinci (8), Italy, 6-1, 6-z Samantha Crawlbrd, United Saeva, def. Andrea Petkovic, G ermany, 6-3,6-0.

WTA Shenzhen Open Thursday, At Longgang Tennis Center Shenzhen, Chins Pume: 0426,750 (Intl.)

Surface: Hanl&utdoor Singles — QusrterSnals Alison Riske, United States, def. Anett Kontaveit Estonia, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

Agnieszka Radwanska u ), poland, def. wang Qiang, china, 6-3, 6-z TimeaBabas,Hungary,def.EugenicBouchard (6), Canada, 6-4, 6-4.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, def. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

1— 2

San Jose 1 0 0— 1 First Period — 1, Detroit, DeKeyser 3 (ZNerberg, Larkin), 9:16. 2, San Jose, Ward 11 (Burns, Vlasic), 10:57. Penalties — Glendening, Det (highsticking), 1428; Glendening, Det (holding), 1R09.

Second Period — None. Penalties — Larkin, Det (tripping), 3:02; Br.smith, Det (roughing), 14:47; Hertl, SJ (slashing), 14:47; Zubrus, SJ (holding), 18:46.

Third Period — 3,Detroit, Abdelkader 13 (Datsyuk, Ericsson), 13:08. Penalties — Pavelski, SJ (ilNerference), 17:07; Thornton, SJ, double minormisconduct (roughing), 20:00.

Shots on Goal —Detroit 12-&7 —25. San Jose 16-10-1 0 — 36.

Power-playoppo rtunities —Detroit 0 of 2; San

Jose 0 of 3.

Goalies —Detroit, Mrazek 14-8-3 (36 shots-35 saves). San Jose, Jones 16-1 3-2 (25-23).

A— 16+56 (17,562). T — 2:29.

Referees — Kyle Rehman, Brad Meier. Linesmen — Ryan Galloway, Darren Gibbs.

Tennis ATP Workl Tour Qatar ExxonMobil Open Thursday, At The Khalifa Intemslional Tennis & Squash Complex, Doha, Qatar Purse: $1.190 million (WT250) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Snghs —QuarterAnsls lllya Marchenko, Ukraine, def. Jeremy Chardy (7), France, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Novak Djokovic u), serbia, def. Leonardo

wrA AsB classic

Thursday, At ASB Bank Tennis Centre

Auckland, NewZealand Pume: 0226,750 (Intl.)

Surface: Hanl&utdoor Singles-Qusrterlinals

Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 6-1, 6-0. sloane stephens (5), United states, def.

Naomi Broa+, Britain,7-6(6),6-3.

Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3.

Julia Goerges, Germany, def. Nao Hibimo, Japan, 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-4.

ATP World Tour Ain»l Chennai Open Thursday, At SDAT Tennis Ssdium Chennai, India

purse: 44M~ rwr250)

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Transactions BASEBAlL MLB — Promoted Billy Bean to vice president, social responsibility & inclusion. Named Curtis Pride ambassador for inclusion.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES —Named Mark Quinn assistant major league hitting coach.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Claimed OF Daniel Fields off waivers from Los Angeles (NL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chien-Ming Wang on a minor league COlrtl'act.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Anthony Bass.

NstionslLeague LOS ANGELESDODGERS —Agreed to terms with RHP Kenta Maeda on an eight-year contI8Ct.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with RHP Trey Ha Icy to a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCOGIANTS —Agreed to terms with OF Denard Span to a three-year contract.

American Association Benoit Paire (3), France,def. Lukas Rosol, Czech KANSAS CITY'-BONES — Sold the contract Republic, 7-5, 7& of RHp Bobby Doran to Toronto (Au. Ramkumar Ramanathan, India, def. Alexander SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released RHP Kudryavtsev, Russia, M, 64, 64.

Billy Bullock and RHP John Ely. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, def. Luca Vanni, Italy, Can-Am League 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

ROCKlAND BOULDERS — Signed C Tyler Clark.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Houston G Ty Lawson three games for driving under the influence of Pregame.Com NBA alcohol, in violation of the law af the State of Favorite Open 0/ U Und e nlog California.

Toronto 1'/2 (202) at Washington MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived CRyan Orlando Hollins.

5 u9$/~) At Brooklyn Indiana 2 (206) At New Orleans PHOENIX SUMS — Waived G Bryce Cotton Surface: Hanl&utdoor Singles-Second Round Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, def. Gilles Muller (6), Luxembourg, 6-4, 7-5.

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and F Cary Jefferson.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed OT Edawn Coughman to a reserve/future contract CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OLs Conor Boffeli and Erie Ladson to reserve/futures contracts.

INDIANAPOLIS coLTs — Named Dan Emerson chief legal officer and Ted Monachino defensive coordinator.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed WR Tyler Davis to a reserve/future contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Winnipeg F Nikolaj Ehlers and New Jersey F Bobby Farnham $z000 each for diving/embellishment.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Traded LW Max Friberg to Montreal Canadiens for G Dustin Tokarski.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Mike Cammalles on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 30.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Acquired G Kaden Fulcher from Sarnia (OHL) for G Charlie Graham.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALs — Signed Fs Blake Hietala and Daniel Gentzler.

READING ROYALS — Announced D Christia Marti was assigned to the team from Leigh Valley (AHL).

North American Soccer League MIAMI FC — Signed D Rhett Bernstein. laaosse National lacrosse League NLL — Named Nick Sakiewicz commissioner.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Announced the retirement of M Gonzalo Pineda.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Acquired M Brad Davis from Houston for a 2017 SuperD raft second-round pick, a 2018 Superoraft thirdround pick and future considerations.

United Soccer League USL — Awarded a franchise to Spurs Sports & Entertainment which will play in San Antonio beginning in the 2016 season.

SAN ANTONIO — Named Darren Powell coach.

COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Named Kodi Burns running backs coach.

AUBURN — Named Wesley McG riff secondaryy coach and co-defensive coordinator.

BALL STATE — Named Mike Neu football coach.

BOSTON COLLEGE — Named Jim Reid defensive coordinator.

CLEMSON — Announced men's basketball F Elijah Thomas has transferred from Texas A&M. G EORGIA — AnnouncedLB Leonard Floyd will enter the NFL draft.

POST (CONN.) — Named Tim Caton men' s assistant lacrosse coach.

RUTGERS — Named Adam Caltury director of recruiting.

TENNEESSEE — Announced freshman QB Sheriron Jones is transfening to another schooL UTAH — Announced assistant coaches Sharseffshah and Justin Ena asco-specialteams coordinators.

VANDERBILT — Announced QB Johnny McCrary is transferring.

WEST VIRGINIA — Announced RB Wendell Smallwood will enter the NFL draft.

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205 STONE STREET $368,000 COPPER TOWNUPSCALE LOFTw/crnr location.

2 beautiful finishes andviews. 3 suites+ great room floor plan. Balconywrapsaround loft with view of the townsquare w/dining, shops services & events. 2ndfloor with elevator in bldg. Stainless appliances w/granite kitchen. Laundry roomw/ counters &cabinets. Large closets and much moretosee.RentalOK.¹152652CBLT 785-2273

565 E BALD MTN ROAD $359,000 TOTALREMODEL! Located just abovedowntown Sonora inMyersHill with anamazing view! This home hasbeenremodeled, stripped downto the studs, andlovingly rebuilt as a neutral canvasto make yourown! It is bright &sunny&just under 3000sf w/5bd, 3ba &a2 car garage! Likenewat $121 persq.ft. This is aspecial property, call today.

21899 PASEO DE LOS PORTALES $325,000 SHOPANDACREAGE,Great 2 story homew/ mountain views.Openliving room &kitchen w/ dining area &sunroom off side, laundry, 1/2 bath on main levelw/2bdrms, 2baths, onupper level master bdrmw/walk in closet &exceptional views.

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20175 MIDLAND $299,500 ACCOMMODATING HOUSESprawl out on this 2.73 acre property at theend of acul-de-sac.

Main level has kitchen w/island, formal dining, open living roomand office. 2 bd lower level has 2 bd, 2 baandmaster suite w/fireplace, jetted tub and walk in shower. ¹20151366CBML532-6993

28635 HERRING CREEK LANE ¹7 $249,000 LOVELYSTRAWBERRY CABIN IS A DREAM COMETRUE!Beautifully situated along the creek, this is the perfect getaway.This 3 bedrooms, 1 bath cabin is in theRiverResort which is close to all high country amenities. Enjoyhiking, fishing, Pinecrest and more. ¹20151817CBTH586-5200

20680 CAYLOR DRIVE

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21499 MADRE DRIVE $249,000

UPDATED&MOVE-IN READY!Thishomehas had manyrecent updates including a remodeled kitchen, newcarpeting, fresh interior & exterior paint & has ahigh efficient HVACsystem installed.

It has a great fir plan w/ Ig living rm w/fireplace, open dining rm,bonus rmdownstairs & kitchen w/ granite & stainless. A 30yr roof was installed 2 yrs ago. Enjoy this homew/ community clubhouse, park & lake.820152137CBSEG532-7400

SO MUCH CHARMAND CHARACTER. Callfora showing andyouwill simply fall in love. Deckarea offers just enoughroomto enjoy views of Lake Tulloch. Great for morningcoffee/tea and evening cocktails. Enjoy the family roomwith the charming

BEAUTIFULSINGLE LEVEL HOME. Located in Pine Mountain LakeHOAby the Golf Course. New interior/exterior paint & carpet. 3 bdrm, 2bath, 2 car attached garage.Enjoyamenities: Local restaurants, shops &recreational activities. Bonus loft (get-a-way).Upgradedbathrooms, somefresh guest unit in backyard. Garagehasbuilt in work paint and super clean.Talkabout CHARMING!Not shop bench area. ¹20152120CBML532-6993 your run of the mil. ¹151316CBLT785-2273

WELL CAREDFORHOME.3 bedroom 2 bath home with coveredporch to enjoy yourmorning coffee. Theyard is fenced in and there is room for extra parking. Enjoythe tennis courts andgolf course nearby. ¹20151900CBML532-6993

55 BRADFORD AVE $239,000 HISTORICVICTORIAN!The character flows through eachroomwith classic hardwood floors, large roomswith high ceilings, and grandcenterpiece fireplaces. Mainhomeis 3bed, 2 bath with bonus rooms or it can bedivided into two units with a second kitchenupstairs. Separateapart-

14215 TUOLUMNE ROAD $229,500 GREATEXPOSURE.High traffic counts with a business's park zoning. Themain structure has a sprinkler fire suppression systemandnewer central air conditioner with 1 bedroom 1bath apartment. You canutilize this property for many different types of businesses. ¹20151921 CBML 532-6993

15404 DANATA WAY $229,000 LARGEBACKYARD. Great housew/fenced backyard & levelentry access.Kitchen w/ample cabinets opensinto dining &living roomw/pellet stove & openbeamceilings. 2 bedroom 2bath, 1224 sq ft on.28 acresw/finished garage &bonus den. Central heat/air, hardwired for generator,new laminate flooring. ¹20151918CBML532-69933

23686 MARBLE QUARRY ROAD ¹71 $219,000 PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP! This three bedroomtwo and a half bath homeis1950 sq. ft. and hasan extra loft upstairs and anoversized garage. Enjoy the community pool! ¹20151853CBSEG532-7400

19223 -C SALVADOR COURT $58,400 BEAUTIFUL TREED SETTING Nice sizedcondo,only 4 units the complex. 2story living allows for privacy. 2 bdrm 11/2 bath, 1106Sq Ft. Close to town golf course, grill, swimmingand tennis facilities, sharedparking and laundry room.Great starter home orweekendget-a-way. Each unit pays their ownmetered water, sewer,electricity and propane. ¹20151265CBML532-6993

23732 PARROTTS FERRY ROAD ¹12 $55,500 FOREVER VIEWS! Located in a quiet adult community, this homehas beautiful western & scenic views off thepatio. Theattractive fir plan includes 2bd, 2ba, office/den, built-in surround sound, propanefireplace in the liv rm+ kitchen w/breakfast bar. Enjoy the community clubhouse w/ pool! Call today... this is a bargain! ¹20152042

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26175 JANICE WAY $206,000 HEAD FOR THEHILLS This is your perfect getaway cabin in the pines. Agreat place to relax &unwind. Thedeck & roof werereplaced 3 years ago & overthe past fewyearsthe ownerhasdone updates. 3bd, 2ba,wood flooring & acozy fire- place that warmsthewhole place. Close to year= round recreation & it has ahot tub! ¹20151308

19849 VILLA DRIVE $159,000 EASY LIVING &GLORIOUSVIEWSThis condo is located in a gated area of Sonora called Gibbs Ranch Villas. It is on the 2nd level & features 2bd, 2ba, slate tile, berber carpeting & kitchen w/ stainless steel. Enjoy your private deck w/ amazing mountain views. Locked storage unit + more storage underneath. This is a must see!

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19840 CHEROKEE TRAIL $59,000 RURAL PROPERTYBUTWITH ELECTRICITYThis sale includes asecond parcel of19.645acres a couple miles downthe road. That's right, 29.645 total acres for one lowprice. ¹20150310CBML 532-6993

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RAWHIDE VALLEY 74.5 Acres + 3bd/2.5ba, 2800sf home. Irrigated pasture, reservoir, barn. $695,000. Tuolumne County Realty 532-7464

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This 3bd.2bahomeis readyto moveinto.Themain level hostsa great room with abright kitchen The lowerlevel includesguest room,laundry&bathroom.Large deck inbackis private, perfect for entertaining&overlooksthe forest.Thismaybethe home for you.¹20151800$225,000 Call Kimberly Cocco 5334242 or 728 5554

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SONORA $600/MONTH includes Utils! Master bed, bath, view, no smk, or pets. Ph. 352-4617 SONORA ROOM Share home. $475/mo. incl's utilities & cable; Avail now.209-206-1270 225 Mobile/RV Spaces

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DOWNTOWN STUDIO - Garden Cottage at 153 N. Stewart $600/month+ deposit. (209) 352-4042

BOOKKEEPER Busy office needs P/T full charge bookkeeper Sonora. Show me carpet/no pets. Water & in know your debits garb. incl. $775/mo+dp. you and credits! Pls send 536-9027 or 743-1002 Resume and Ref's to: UD Box ¹90393321 c/o 215 The Union Democrat Rooms to Rent 84 S. Washington St. Sonora, CA 95370 LARGE ROOM IN Sonora Meadows.

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CALAVERAS COUNTY WATER DISTRICT is looking to hire a Construction Worker I ($23.45 - $28.50/hour) for performing new construction, repair, installation, preventive and corrective maintenance activities on District water and wastewater facilities. Class A license, concrete and general construction experience highly desirable. More information, including application and job description can be found online at N~ww.ccwd.or under employment opportunities. Contact Stacey at 209.754.3015 with any questions. Apps are due by 1/22 at 4:00pm.

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I Bedroom, I Bath For rent or lease. Call shed,andlongdrivewayfor extra parking. PROPERTY/ 3.97 ACRES/ SELLER $780/mo John 532-2052.

2 Bedroom, 1-1/2 Bath FINANCING AVAILABLE. Level, fenced.

ONLY$59,900 $830 to $920/mo WaS B49-988 Now $99,900 Classified Photos WOODSCREEKSENIOR No Application Fee Placed In Move-i nready:Manuf acturedhome.2bed, 2ACRES W/ STUNNING LAKE VIEW! 209-532-6520 The Union Democrat OPPORTUNITIES monovilla e m a i l.corn In print & online.

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PARKING & BASE AREA ATTENDANT Performs necessary tasks to provide quality arrival, parking & base area exp for guests. Incls snow removal & janitorial work. Outgoing & welcoming personality req. 18 yo. FT/ PT, starts ©$10/hr. DOE. Details, Apply & More

SUNDANCE HOT TUB Altamar 4-6 Person w/ Lounge. $650. OBO. Call 209-743-8042

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CLEANER EXTRAORDINAIRE: Hiring detail-oriented person to serve our clients. Good pay with pd training. Call 586-3314.

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EVENT PLANNER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR - P/T •Event Planner is

INSTRUCTOR Position available 9am-3pm. Mon.- Fri.

responsible for coordinating all fundraising events including pre/ post planning.

•Volunteer Coordinator recruits, trains and ensures volunteers meet shelter standards. Proficiency in MS Office 8 previous event and volunteer exp a plus. Valid D. Lic. and own transportation & background check required. No phone calls. Mail app. to: P.O. Box 830 Jamestown, CA 95327.

209-588-1364 JAMESTOWN RANCH in Sonora has FT & PT positions open; Direct

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Classified Section Apply in person with 588-4515 resume Tues-Sat. at 1183 Mono Way. CLERK WANTED P/T HOTEL TEAMMATES! avail. Eves and Week- Best Western PLUS ends. Must be friendly, Sonora Oaks Hotel is dependable & flexible. now hiring for: Apply in person at • HOUSEKEEPERS Twain Harte Pharmacy.

• FRONT DESK DENTAL ASSISTANT • NIGHT AUDITOR Sonora / Angels Camp (11:00pm To 7:00am) Endodontic Office seeks • JANITOR a warm, caring, dental Apply in person at assistant with good 19551 Hess in Sonora. communication skills.

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Exp preferred. Please PROVIDER-P/T fax resume to 532-1851. IHSS to work with 23 year old male with autism in Get paid to clean Jamestown; night shift. your garage...

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DRIVERS NEEDED: Previous exp preferred but not req'd. Will train.

Must have clean driving record. Apply in person at Vic's Towing, 1230 Hwy.49 w/DMV Report.

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PARKING & BASE AREAATTENDANT Performs necessary tasks to provide quality arrival, parking & base area exp for guests. Incls snow removal & janitorial work. Outgoing & welcoming personality req. 18 yo. FT/PT, starts ©$10/hr. DOE. Details, Apply & More

BOILER OPERATOR Stanislaus Food Products - Modesto, CA Stanislaus Food Products, the nation's leader of premium quality packed from fresh tomato products for restaurants, has an immediate opening at their Modesto facility.

Job Description: In-Season (July-Sept): The Boiler Operator is responsible for operating the boiler plant, which includes making manual adjustments to facility boilers, monitoring and maintaining boiler plant steam, water, and air systems.

Off-Season:Pre-season and post-season routine maintenance of boilers, steam delivery systems, condensate recovery systems, and air systems.

Job Duties: • Monitor the steam system performance and make pressureadjustments as needed.

• Perform routine maintenance on boilers, steam delivery systems, and condensate recovery systems.

• Daily inspections of the steam delivery system with an emphasis on identifying and correcting faulty equipment.

• Perform regular water analysis and balance as needed.

Required Skills and Abilities: • General manual dexterity •Basicmath knowledge • Mechanical aptitude • Ability to operate heavy equipment • Knowledge of safe practices relating to job Minimum Qualifications: • Must have HS/GED or one to two years' experience in related field or combination of both education and experience • Must be able to effectively record data in service logs • 2 years' experience operating boiler Hours and Workdays: During the three month processing season, must be able to work any shift, seven days per week. During the off-season the boiler operator schedule is 7am-3:30pm Monday through Friday.

How to Apply: lf you desire to join an industry leader and become part of our Company with a long established and growing loyal customer base, please send your resume to: Stanislaus Food Products Company Attn: HR Dept. - Boiler Operator P. O. Box 3951, Modesto, CA 95352 or Fax to: (209) 526-3201 or Email to: SFP'ob ostin s@ mail.corn

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LIFTOPERATORS Successful candidate enjoys people and working outside in all weather. Operates chair lift/assists guests. Training provided. 18 yrs. FT/PT, starts $10.25/hr. DOE

• Housekeeping, • Maintenance, s Night Audit-11pm to 7am.

Apply in person at 350 S. Washington St.

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($21.02-$25.54/hr.) needed to plan, implement and coordinate the literacy Marianne, (415) 661-7468 program including, or MELakam a h oo.corn recruiting, training, evaluating / superGot The Fishing Bug vising program volunteers and staff; But No Boat? write grant proposals; Check Out serve on committees The Union Democrat and councils; teach Classified Section classes; 8 program 588-4515 budgetmanagement.

For detailed job flyer and specific applicaJOURNEYMAN tion requirements ELECTRICIAN. Must please visit have current state htt://hr.calaverascertification & service gov.us work exp. Fax resume FFD: 01/22/16. EOE to 795-4420 or email LEASING OFFICE looking for a leasing agent with customer service skills and self motivated. Must be available for weekends.

Send Resume to: UD Box ¹90392999 c/o The Union Democrat, 84 S. Washington St., Sonora, CA 95370.

Opportunities at: HR Dod eRid e.corn 209-536-5386, EOE.

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MOUNTAIN SPRINGS GOLF COURSE has two open positions: •Golf Shop Assistant AM & PM shifts, P/T. No experience necessary.

•P/T Cart/Range - must be able to work a.m. & eves., weekdays and some weekends. Req's. valid D.L. & must be 18 yrs. of age. Job applications available in the Golf Shop at 17566 Lime Kiln Rd., Sonora.

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Will perform unskilled and semiskilled work in construction maintenance and repair of County roads and other County facilities as assigned.

Equivalent to graduation from HS and (I) one year OR (II) two years of experience in road maintenance, facilities maintenance or general construction. For detailed job flyer and specific application process please visit htt://hr.calaverasgov.us FD: 01/08/16 by 5:00 p.m. EOE

sonoraemployment.corn NOW HIRING FOR: STRAWBERRY INN •Housekeeping; Food ~Hirin now! Cook, Service; and ~Program. Housekeepers 8 ServApply in person at ers. Larry, 965-3662 SILVER SPUR CAMP, 17301 Silver Spur Drive, SUMMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is accepting Tuolumne. Pay DOE. apps: Varsity Softball (209) 928-4248 Assistant Coach/ PAC-N-COPY HAS P/T Stipend $500. Apps Entry level position. Exc avail at Summerville HS 17555 Tuolumne Road, Customer Service and Tuolumne, CA 95379 strong computer skills req'd. Apply in person at Deadline is Jan. 11, '16.

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TABLE MOUNTAIN PAINTER WANTED: RANCHES is seeking Experience a plus.

Direct Care Staff to Temporary. $12/hour. work in a group home Call 728-5947 setting w/ developmentally delayed & autistic RECEPTIONIST children. Will train. Must seeking P/T w/potential be able to pass DOJ/ for F/T professional in- FBI background check. dividual who can multi- (209) 984-3188 task, works well with customers in very busy THERAPY AIDE. Outpatient Clinic. environment. Submit resume: Studio 3 Salon, Patient care and office duties. Medical exp 19060 Standard Rd. preferred but willing to Ste. 3, Sonora, 95370 mentor. Fax resume to (209) 533-1611.

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STANISLAUS FOOD PRODUCTS, the nation's leader of premium quality canned tomato products for Italian restaurants & pizzerias, has an immediate opening in the Modesto area.

Job Requirements: • The candidate must be able to install, adjust, maintain, repair and overhaul cannery instruments, controls and related equipment.

• Able to troubleshoot, and use latest technology in instrumentation and controls, as well as fluency in pneumatic controls and devices.

• Must be able to recognize and correct potential failures.

• Test, time and calibrate instruments for efficient performance.

• Read sketches, blueprints and operating instructions.

• Order and maintain supply of replacement parts and materials.

• The candidate must be able to read, write and speak English.

During the three month processing season, must be able to work any shift. The wage and benefits package is a negotiated package with the Teamsters Union. Separate from this package, the Company offers attractive performance based bonuses. Significant overtime is required during the processing season.

To Apply: If you desire to join an industry leader and become part of our Company with a long established and growing loyal customer base, please send your resume to: Stanlslaus Food Products Company Attn: HR Department P. O. Box 3951, Modesto, CA 95352-ORFax to: (209) 526-3201 Email to: etomatoe1© mail.corn

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S TANISLAUS FOOD PROD U C T S the nation's leader of premium quality packed from fresh tomato products for restaurants, has immediate openings for Maintenance Mechanics at their Modesto facility.

Job Requirements: • Must be able to read sketches, prints, operating instructions and determine procedure.

• Check materials and parts.

• Lay out work from sketchers drawings, etc.

• Cut and assemble parts to construct machinery & equipment. Locate, line up and anchor machinery.

• Be able to do running adjustments and timing of equipment.

• Weld, including Heliarc and stainless steel.

• Must be able to read, write and speak English, EOE. During the three month processing season, must be able to work any shift. The wage and benefits package is a negotiated package with the Teamsters Union. Separate from this package, the Company offers attractive performance based bonuses. Significant overtime is required during the processing season.

How to Apply: If you desire to join an industry leader and become part of our Company with a long established and growing loyal customer base, please send your resume to: Stanislaus Food Products Company Attn: HR Dept.

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ly. The odor is so strong, guests coming into the house can smell it. Maybe she simply can't tell how bad it is.

What do you suggest I do? What do you suggest she do? This is a fairly urgent matter.

Thank you. — EMBARRASSED DEAR EMBARRASSED: Your wife might be surprised to learn that incontinence affects more than 25 million people in the U.S., and most eases are treatable. There are differenttypes

might be more willing to address it with her doctor if you tell her that incontinence can indicate a more serious underlying medical condition. And she might be reassured to know that she might of incontinence: Stress inconti- be able to control the problem nence (leaking when you cough, through medication and/or pelvic sneeze, laugh); urge incontinence exercises.For information, you (a sudden need to use the bath- both can contact the National Asroom, usually due to other condi- sociation for Continence at nafc. tions, such as an infection); over- org flow incontinence (the bladder DEAR ANNIE: My wife and I are doesn't completely empty when elderly and no longer enjoy things like you use the toilet); functional in- fancy candies and fruit. We have tried continence (wherein a physical to subtly let family and friends know or mental impairment creates a this, but they persist, on frequent problem, such as severe arthritis occasions, in sending us expensive that makes it difficult to unzip edibles from elegant places, which we fast enough); or mixed inconti- then regift to others. (This isn't easy, nence (more than one type). as mostofourfriendsare also elderly We know this is a sensitive anti won't enjoy the epicurean treats.) subject, but you absolutely must We feel that, to be polite, we must speak to your wife about it. She thank the givers. But the truth is, we would be mortified to realize would much prefer that they use the that others notice the odor. She money to make a donation to charity.

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someone with recurrent urinary tract infections that need antibiotics, I won-

der why the person is getting them in the first place. In older women, the most likely cause is atrophic vaginitis, a conditio n thatleadsto bacteria getting into the bladder more easily. In older men, it's often a prostate problem that is preventing the bladder from emptyingproperly.Both men and women can have kidney or bladder stones, which is arisk factorforrecurrentinfections.

Depending on the situation, a CT scan

To Your Good Health

mate, a 78-year-old woman with moderately high cholesterol but no high Keith Roach, M.D. blood pressure has about a 19 percent riskof a heart attack or stroke in 10 years. However, that number can be or medical, gynecologic or urologic eval- brought down to just over 17 percent by uations may be necessary in finding the taking a medication like pravastatin. cause of recurrent infections.

That might not sound like a big benefit, DEAR DR. ROACH:I am8 78-year- but it means a lot fewer heart attacks old woman, and I take pravastatin for ifeveryone with risk factorsis treated my choles terol.Itry to eatwell.Ihave optimally. a family history of high blood pressure I must stress that the medication is and heart attack. What would be the onlypart ofthe treatment. Good diet, consequences of having uncontrolled controlof blood pressure and quitting high cholesterol? — A.B. smoking(i fappropriate)areotherpowANSWER: High cholesterol, like erfulways to reducerisk.Soisregular highblood pressure,is treated to re- moderate exercise. duce the risk of damaged and blocked The booklet on cholesterol and its blood vessels. In the heart, these may subtypes covers all aspects of choleslead to heart attack. In the brain, terolcontrol.Readerscan obtain acopy these may lead to stroke, and in the by writing: Dr. Roach Book No. 201, 628 m ajor blood vesselsofthechest,abdo- Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803. Enmen and legs, they can lead to pain close a check or money order (no cash)

HORIICIIPE Birthday for January 8. Push your personal limitations this year. Old wounds heal with forgiveness. Plan moves carefully, and launch or sign after April. Vernal eclipses inspire your creative muses, opening career opportunities.

Autumnal eclipses feed your wanderlust for study, research and travel, providing abundant material. Write your masterwork.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Today is a 7 — Forthree weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn, it's easy to find the right words to express your feelings and affection. Creativity comes easily, so apply it to a passion project. Networking produces results, especially today and tomorrow.

Libra (Sept.23-Oct. Zj: Today is a 6 — Homeappeals today and tomorrow. Enjoy a domestic phase for three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Get creative with home To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the renovation. Invent new family traditions. Enjoy peace and easiest day, 0 the most challenging. solitude with Jupiter retrograde (until 5/9).

Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 7 —Career opporScorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is an 8 —Begin a threetunities multiply, especially today and tomorrow. Others un- week study phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. It's easier to derstand you better, with Mercury in Capricorn. Discuss your express yourself, especially today and tomorrow. Practice ambitions with family. Influential people are more willing to and learn voraciously. Communications are wide open. Get talk over the next three weeks. You' re earning respect. feedback from friends and followers. They' re your strength.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Today is a 6 —Enter a threeSagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today is an 8 —Communiweek expansion phase with Mercury in Capricorn. Travel, cations get lucrative over the next three weeks, with Mercury research and education flourish. Broaden your horizons, in Capricorn. Use your wits to increase your income, espeespecially today and tomorrow. Study from a master. Go to cially today and tomorrow. Revise your professional path the source. Make plans for your next adventure. over the next four months, with Jupiter retrograde.

Gemini (May 21 June 20): Today is a 7 —Enter a threeCapricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today is a 5 —Begin a threeweek financial management phase, with Mercury in Capriweek intellectual phase, with Mercury in your sign. Figure corn. File papers. Plan to publish after Jupiter stations direct things out for yourself. You' re even smarter than usual, (5/9). Learn economics, hands-on, over the next three weeks. especially today and tomorrow. Express your views. Plan Avoid risks. Discuss shared finances today and tomorrow. your next educational adventure for launch after 5/9.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Today is an 8 — The next two Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today is a 6 —Begin a days are good for negotiations and compromise. A threethree-week pensive phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. Finish week partnership phase begins, with Mercury in Capricorn. old projects, and review progress made. Dreams seem proCollaborate on solutions. Over the next four months with phetic. Savor introspection, meditation, ritual and gratitude.

Jupiter retrograde (until 5/9), review and revise financial Review financial investments over the next four months, matters. with Jupiter retrograde.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Today is a 7 —Begin a three-week Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Today is a 6 —Enter a threeintense work phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. Don't com- week phase of team support, with Mercury in Capricorn. Evpromise your health. Work smarter and faster, especially erything you need is in your network. Collaboration is your today and tomorrow. Let go of old practices and habits that strength over the next four months, with Jupiter retrograde. no longer serve. Handle urgent priorities.

Secure your holdings and nurture work relationships.

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Is there a polite way for us to tell them this without appearing to be rude and ungrateful? — ANONYMOUS DEAR ANONYMOUS: We suspect these people are trying to be kind and don't know what else to get you. You must thank them for thinking of you. But when an occasioniscoming up where you know they are likely to send you such things, inform them in advance thatyou no longer eat candy or fancy fruits. Say that you are making aconcerted effort to do more goodin your lives,and if they insist on honoring you, a gift to such-and-such charity would mean the world to you.

Annie's Mailboxis written by Kathy

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Today's Highlights in History:On Jan. 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.

On this date: In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.

In 1863, America's First Transcontinental Railroad had its beginnings as California Gov. Leland Stanford broke ground for the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento. (The transcontinental railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah, in May 1869.)

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America."

In 1975, Judge John J. Sirica ordered the early release from prison of Watergate figures John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder. Democrat Ella Grasso was sworn in as Connecticut's first female governor Opera singer Richard Tucker, 61, died in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In 1982, American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

In 1996, former French president Francois Mitterrand (frahn-SWAH' meeteh-RAHN') died at age 79.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Tuolumne County Planning Commission of Tuolumne County, California, will conduct a public hearing on January 20, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 2 South Green Street, Sonora to consider the following:

1. PINE MOUNTAIN LAKE-ANTHEM TELECOM, Conditional Use Permit CUP15-015 for a wireless communication facility with a 100 foot tall mono-pine tower on a 134.5 acre parcel zoned K:MX and K:MX:AIR. 12742 Par Court, Groveland. APN 90-030-19.

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Interested persons are invited to be heard.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tuolumne will consider the following the public hearings referenced below:

Ordinanceamending the Tuolumne County Ordinance Code by adding a new Chapter 17.67 to establish regulations for limited medical marijuana cultivation by qualified patients and primary caregivers.

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